{"id":589,"date":"2009-10-19T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=589"},"modified":"2009-10-19T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:58:22","slug":"the-builder-from-the-photo-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"The Builder (from the Photo Archive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"nesting material by mjhinton, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/2438056034\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nesting material\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3030\/2438056034_9bc10632b5_o.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" \/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>I watched this robin gather grass for nesting material in our small sideyard a few years ago. It was a windy day and the robin kept dropping what it already had in its beak as it tried for more. (Called to mind <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dog_and_the_Bone\">Aesop<\/a>.) After numerous attempts, the robin gathered up a good bundle. It took off from the grass and paused just long enough in a gap in the fence. Click. Thank you. 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It was a windy day and the robin kept dropping what it already had in its beak as it tried for more. (Called to mind Aesop.) After numerous attempts, the robin gathered up a good bundle. It took &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Builder (from the Photo Archive)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}