{"id":24966,"date":"2017-03-24T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=24966"},"modified":"2017-03-24T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:41:22","slug":"photo-friday-silent-blue-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2017\/03\/24\/photo-friday-silent-blue-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Silent Blue Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24967\" style=\"width: 1320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo\/silent-blue-heron\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/luna.journeyoflight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/112A5722-heron-1.jpg\" alt=\"A great blue heron silently glides above the marsh at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge (Loess Bluffs). \" width=\"1320\" height=\"880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24967\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/112A5722-heron-1.jpg 1320w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/112A5722-heron-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/112A5722-heron-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/112A5722-heron-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/112A5722-heron-1-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silent Blue Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most years I try to get to Squaw Creek (now Loess Bluffs) National Wildlife Refuge at least once for the bird migrations.  This year, I was able to go a few times to witness the snow geese, bald eagles, and herons.  Each bird is unique, but the elegance with which the heron glides through the sky makes flying seem so effortless and beautiful.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most years I try to get to Squaw Creek (now Loess Bluffs) National Wildlife Refuge at least once for the bird migrations. This year, I was able to go a few times to witness the snow geese, bald eagles, and herons. Each bird is unique, but the elegance with which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,130,29,44,45],"tags":[166,186],"class_list":["post-24966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-blue-heron","category-nature","category-photo-friday","category-spring","category-squaw-creek-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-nature","tag-wildlife","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}