{"id":2700,"date":"2010-06-07T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T01:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/desert-verdin-and-her-nest\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T03:13:22","slug":"desert-verdin-and-her-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/desert-verdin-and-her-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Verdin and Her Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/verdin.jpg' title='verdin.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/verdin.jpg' alt='verdin.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>We were at our new home site in Arizona today doing some business. We went to the lot we recently purchased just to have a look around and make some decisions about how we want to direct our contractor to proceed with the new home construction. Just before we departed, I noticed a birds nest in the palo verde tree on the roadway in front of the lot. As I prepared to photograph the nest, a tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Verdin\">verdin<\/a> emerged and lit on a branch in the tree. At first, I thought it was a hummingbird being so small. After it perched in the tree, I took this photo. Click on the image to get a closer look. <a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/verdin-nest.jpg' title='verdin-nest.jpg'>Click here to see its nest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were at our new home site in Arizona today doing some business. We went to the lot we recently purchased just to have a look&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}