{"id":176,"date":"2011-02-06T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-12-06T01:41:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:41:19","slug":"american-bittern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"American Bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rather gloomy and damp day so I was not expecting much.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177 \" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI027.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI027.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI027-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI027-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much to my delight this American Bittern emerged from the reeds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178 \" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI028.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI028.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI028-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI028-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Better yet,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-179 \" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI029.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI029.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI029-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI029-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; it did not seem to mind my walking along side.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180 \" title=\"American Bittern\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI030.jpg\" alt=\"American Bittern\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI030.jpg 398w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI030-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AMBI030-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Bittern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Bittern definitely made my day allowing me to be this close with what is usually a fairly elusive bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rather gloomy and damp day so I was not expecting much. Much to my delight this American Bittern emerged from the reeds. Better yet, &#8230; it did not seem to mind my walking along side. This Bittern definitely made my day allowing me to be this close with what is usually a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Bittern&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-american-bittern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}