{"id":5872,"date":"2016-05-09T20:48:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/09\/why-cardinals-dont-hide-well-in-the-desert\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:49:04","slug":"why-cardinals-dont-hide-well-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/09\/why-cardinals-dont-hide-well-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cardinals Don&#8217;t Hide Well in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/cardinal-camouflage.jpg' title='Cardinal in a Mesquite Tree'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/cardinal-camouflage.jpg' alt='Cardinal in a Mesquite Tree' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were on our after Dinner walk today when I heard the courting songs of a cardinal somewhere in the trees along the road. As usual, when hearing cardinals, it is not too difficult to find them because of their bright coloring; definitely not the most discrete critters in the desert foliage. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were on our after Dinner walk today when I heard the courting songs of a cardinal somewhere in the trees along the road. As usual,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}