{"id":37,"date":"2006-04-12T23:58:50","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T23:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:38:10","slug":"heard-but-not-seen-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"heard but not seen [106]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After work, we headed off to Wolf Road Prairie Nature Preserve in Westchester (a western suburb of Chicago) to join a walk led by some folks from the Chicago Audubon Society. The purpose was to view the courtship flights of the American Woodcock. Though we heard several of the birds <em>peent-ing<\/em> in the grass, not a one flew into the air. Kind of a drag after a long haul to the burbs, especially since we didn&#8217;t really have the time for it. (We&#8217;re busy getting ready for our trip to the Texas coast this Friday.) We did see some BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS before it got dark, and \u2014 this is truly amazing \u2014 I didn&#8217;t make a single dirty joke about the word &#8220;woodcock&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After work, we headed off to Wolf Road Prairie Nature Preserve in Westchester (a western suburb of Chicago) to join a walk led by some folks from the Chicago Audubon Society. The purpose was to view the courtship flights of the American Woodcock. Though we heard several of the birds peent-ing in the grass, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}