{"id":2022,"date":"2011-08-07T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T01:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2020-09-09T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:50:49","slug":"sandpiper-blast-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/sandpiper-blast-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandpiper Blast-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often a group of sandpipers would take off, fly around for a few seconds, then land again. &nbsp; There are literally hundreds of them, and they visit Papermill Bridge &#8216;Mudflats&#8217; every year about this time to fatten up for the rest of their migration south.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110805_MAS5095.jpg\" data-lbwps-width=\"720\" data-lbwps-height=\"439\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110805_MAS5095.jpg\" data-lbwps-exif=\"&lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_camera&quot;&gt;Canon EOS-1D Mark IV&lt;\/span&gt; 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There are literally hundreds of them, and they visit Papermill&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/sandpiper-blast-offs\/\">Continue reading &#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sandpiper Blast-offs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[25,46],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sandpipers","tag-gunpowder-watershed","tag-papermill-bridge","ratio-3-2","excerpt"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6416,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/6416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}