{"id":8813,"date":"2014-06-21T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2014-06-21T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T21:56:28","slug":"fried-and-roasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/21\/fried-and-roasted\/","title":{"rendered":"Fried and Roasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I can tell you exactly, precisely, accurately how many\u00a0<strong>Ross&#8217;s gulls\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;ve seen in my lifetime: one, on a wonderful morning in Maryland nearly thirty years ago.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a happy memory, and one that makes it even more interesting to read <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/condor\/v031n03\/p0132-p0132.pdf\">accounts like this one<\/a>, from the pen of Charles D. Brower at Barrow, Alaska:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I did get a good crack at the Ross gulls again this fall [1928]. One day, the 26th of September, they were around in thousands&#8230;. this fall I had them fried and roasted until I almost turned into a Ross Gull myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what did these dainty dishes taste like? Chicken, right?<\/p>\n<p>No:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They taste just as do the Golden Plover, and are just as fat in the fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screenshot-2013-12-16-15.52.49.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screenshot-2013-12-16-15.52.49.png\" width=\"453\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I can tell you exactly, precisely, accurately how many\u00a0Ross&#8217;s gulls\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen in my lifetime: one, on a wonderful morning in Maryland nearly thirty years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a happy memory, and one that makes it even more interesting to read accounts like this one, from the pen of Charles D. Brower at Barrow, Alaska: I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/21\/fried-and-roasted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fried and Roasted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}