{"id":985,"date":"2007-04-11T04:11:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T04:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=985"},"modified":"2012-01-04T04:11:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:11:59","slug":"chilly-welcome-for-the-waxwings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Chilly welcome for the waxwings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/waxwing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>As I walked downtown this afternoon on business, I noticed large flocks of robins and cedar waxwings hanging out in front of Medcenter One. The trees there have some sort of little fruit on &#8217;em, and that&#8217;s the prime delicacy for these birds. They were picking fallen fruit from the sidewalk as well as nibbling on those still adhering to the trees.<\/p>\n<p>I bet these little guys hadn&#8217;t counted on a resurgence of winter when they decided to come back to Bismarck! In any case, I&#8217;m sure this cold snap will pass soon enough&#8230;but it&#8217;s got to be a real bummer for the feathered friends who expected Spring to be in full effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked downtown this afternoon on business, I noticed large flocks of robins and cedar waxwings hanging out in front of Medcenter One. The trees there have some sort of little fruit on &#8217;em, and that&#8217;s the prime delicacy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}