{"id":205,"date":"2005-01-24T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T19:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/the-bird-man-of-the-manzanitas\/"},"modified":"2005-01-24T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T19:43:29","slug":"the-bird-man-of-the-manzanitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"The bird man of the Manzanitas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Visual Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/albq\/fe_visual_arts\/article\/0,2564,ALBQ_19848_3485645,00.html\">The Albuquerque Tribune: Visual Arts<\/a><br \/>\nThe bird man of the Manzanitas<br \/>\nBy Ollie Reed Jr.<br \/>\nTIJERAS &#8211; Jess Alford is sitting in his living room on a recent, gray, chilly morning, sucking in the warmth from a wood-burning stove and a steaming cup of green tea as he watches the fluttered comings and goings of birds just outside the windows of his Manzanita Mountains home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I lived in Dallas, I had to drive 200 to 250 miles to get out of development,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Here, I&#8217;m on the edge of the Cibola National Forest. I just have to walk out the door to be in nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is where, Alford, 71, has decided he wants to be, where he needs to be&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>[mjh: the article is good; so are <a title=\"Albuquerque Tribune Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/web.abqtrib.com\/archives\/news05\/012105_news_jessphoto1.shtml\">the pix<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albuquerque Tribune: Visual Arts The bird man of the Manzanitas By Ollie Reed Jr. TIJERAS &#8211; Jess Alford is sitting in his living room on a recent, gray, chilly morning, sucking in the warmth from a wood-burning stove and a steaming cup of green tea as he watches the fluttered comings and goings of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The bird man of the Manzanitas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}