{"id":350,"date":"2010-03-17T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:35:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T02:35:18","slug":"name-that-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Name That Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4440247937\/\" title=\"IMG_3208 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4021\/4440247937_da4d696828.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This appears to be a Brown Thrasher.  My <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brown_Thrasher\">extensive Wikipedia research<\/a> indicates they can be difficult to spot, but this one seemed content enough to hang out on my fence, or my neighbor&#8217;s fence to be more precise since I never put one up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a hazard of the camera that all manner of learning accompanies the attempt to figure out what&#8217;s in the picture.  I couldn&#8217;t have told you what kind of markings a BrownThrasher had before I looked this bird up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4441025264\/\" title=\"IMG_3215 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4441025264_afe052fdd0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also learned that the Brown Thrasher is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netstate.com\/states\/symb\/birds\/ga_brown_thrasher.htm\">the state bird of Georgia<\/a>.  Who knew that?  I mean aside from a few million people, give or take.<\/p>\n<p>I had only vague memories of the Mockingbird as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netstate.com\/states\/symb\/birds\/ms_mockingbird.htm\">the state bird of Mississippi<\/a>.  I looked that up too to be sure I was right.  They quit talking about things like state birds after about the 5th grade.<\/p>\n<p>And if netstate.com, whatever that might be, is to be believed, school children in Georgia selected the Brown Thrasher in 1928.  Mississippi didn&#8217;t name the Mockingbird to represent us until 1944 when it was selected by The Mississippi Federation of Women&#8217;s Clubs (whatever that might be).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose there was a reason to rush the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This appears to be a Brown Thrasher. My extensive Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}