{"id":5218,"date":"2014-05-12T19:52:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/arizona-state-bird-and-flower\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:52:19","slug":"arizona-state-bird-and-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/arizona-state-bird-and-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona State Bird and Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/state-bird-state-flower.jpg' title='Arizona State Bird and Flower'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/state-bird-state-flower.jpg' alt='Arizona State Bird and Flower' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was out by the irrigation box next to the big saguaro cactus out front when I noticed a bird on the top of some of the flower pods. I usually carry my little point-and-shoot camera, so I retrieved it and took several shots of the bird on the pods. This photo was the best of them, so I am posting it here. The bird is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cactus_wren\">cactus wren<\/a>, the state bird of Arizona. The flower pod upon which it is perched is going to open and be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flower\/arizona.htm#.U3GIkyhvR0o\">state flower of Arizona<\/a>. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out by the irrigation box next to the big saguaro cactus out front when I noticed a bird on the top of some of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}