{"id":329,"date":"2012-09-02T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T00:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2014-11-19T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:03:16","slug":"the-hawk-and-the-flicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"The Hawk and the Flicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>There has been an immature Broad-winged Hawk hanging around our house lately, so when I heard some jays calling, I went to see what was going on. Sure enough, they were mobbing a young Broad-wing, high in a tree. The hawk seemed un-ruffled, but a Northern Flicker came along a little later and sassed the hawk. Eventually it flew off, with the brave Flicker in hot pursuit. 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The hawk seemed un-ruffled, but a Northern Flicker came along a little later and sassed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-with-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galleries.creaturekinships.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}