{"id":9317,"date":"2014-10-15T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9317"},"modified":"2014-10-15T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:10:33","slug":"downtown-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/downtown-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred years ago today, Joseph E. <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.unm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/journals\/auk\/v032n03\/p0371-p0371.pdf\">Gould of Norfolk, Virginia, was in New York City<\/a>. At noon, he attended a service at Trinity Church, then birded the churchyard, &#8220;overshadowed by &#8216;sky-scrapers&#8217; and flanked by surface and elevated street cars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the house sparrows he found two slate-colored juncos, a white-throated sparrow, a hermit thrush, and a brown creeper,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>diligently scrambling up an old scarred and weather-beaten tombstone,\u00a0peering into every crack and crevice for some tender\u00a0morsel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like autumn in the city.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2f\/Trinity_Church_Cemetery_NYC_9109.JPG\/1280px-Trinity_Church_Cemetery_NYC_9109.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred years ago today, Joseph E. Gould of Norfolk, Virginia, was in New York City. At noon, he attended a service at Trinity Church, then birded the churchyard, &#8220;overshadowed by &#8216;sky-scrapers&#8217; and flanked by surface and elevated street cars.&#8221; Among the house sparrows he found two slate-colored juncos, a white-throated sparrow, a hermit thrush, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/downtown-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Downtown Birds&#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":[138,124,600,301,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317"}],"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=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}