{"id":1450,"date":"2015-12-13T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2015-12-13T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:00:25","slug":"dead-birds-and-christmas-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/dead-birds-and-christmas-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Birds and Christmas Joy?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1453\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1453\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-300x202.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-300x202.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-768x516.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-1024x688.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-447x300.jpeg 447w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What could possibly be the connection Victorians saw \u00a0between dead birds and Christmas?!<\/p>\n<p>Please comment! Come back before Dec 19 to see my tie-in!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an illustration of the song\/nursery rhyme, &#8216;Who killed Cock Robin?&#8217; Not very christmassy, I agree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It also might have something to do with the Wren King parades in the UK that happen around Dec 26. They used to parade with a real dead bird, but I believe they use a fake bird now. Maybe some connection&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1456\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1456\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-2-190x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-2-190x300.jpeg 190w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-2.jpeg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1457\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1457\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1457 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-3-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-3-300x201.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-3-448x300.jpeg 448w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-3.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What could possibly be the connection Victorians saw \u00a0between dead birds and Christmas?! Please comment! Come back before Dec 19 to see my tie-in! &nbsp; &#8220;It is an illustration of the song\/nursery rhyme, &#8216;Who killed Cock Robin?&#8217; Not very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/dead-birds-and-christmas-joy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}