{"id":5124,"date":"2018-09-25T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2020-09-01T22:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T02:18:35","slug":"great-blue-heron-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/great-blue-heron-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I keep seeing the same GBH at Warren Rd. Bridge Cove. This time I wouldn&#8217;t let it be and I kinda chased it around. First to the back of the cove (the first pic, biggish crop), then back here, and there, until we both found a spot mutually agreeable ;-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I waited for it to catch a fish for about 30 minutes but no dice. 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Bridge Cove. This time I wouldn&#8217;t let it be and I kinda chased it around. First to the back&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/great-blue-heron-portraits\/\">Continue reading &#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Blue Heron Portraits<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[24,114],"class_list":["post-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herons","tag-loch-raven-reservoir","tag-warren-road-bridge","ratio-3-2","excerpt"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","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=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6004,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions\/6004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}