{"id":721,"date":"2012-01-05T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=721"},"modified":"2011-12-06T19:27:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T02:27:27","slug":"national-bird-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"National Bird Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbirdday.com\/\">National Bird Day &#8211; Homepage<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Why National Bird Day?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The beauty, songs, and flight of birds have long been sources of human inspiration. <\/li>\n<li>Today, nearly 12 percent of the world&#8217;s 9,800 bird species may face extinction within the next century, including nearly one-third of the world&#8217;s 330 parrot species. <\/li>\n<li>Birds are sentinel species whose plight serves as barometer of ecosystem health and alert system for detecting global environmental ills. <\/li>\n<li>Many of the world&#8217;s parrots and songbirds are threatened with extinction due to pressures from the illegal pet trade, disease, and habitat loss. <\/li>\n<li>Public awareness and education about the physical and behavioral needs of birds can go far in improving the welfare of the millions of birds kept in captivity. <\/li>\n<li>The survival and well-being of the world&#8217;s birds depends upon public education and support for conservation. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbirdday.com\/\">National Bird Day &#8211; Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Bird Day &#8211; Homepage Why National Bird Day? The beauty, songs, and flight of birds have long been sources of human inspiration. Today, nearly 12 percent of the world&#8217;s 9,800 bird species may face extinction within the next century, including nearly one-third of the world&#8217;s 330 parrot species. Birds are sentinel species whose plight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Bird Day<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}