{"id":57,"date":"2006-07-09T18:43:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-03-19T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:21:48","slug":"three-swallows-make-a-weekend-267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"three swallows make a weekend [267]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s expedition, we were inspired to add the last local swallow to this year&#8217;s list. So we headed off to the <a href=\"http:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=34\">Chicago Botanic Garden<\/a> where we saw PURPLE MARTINS frolicking in their aptly named purple-martin houses. We only made the trip because we knew there was a p.m. house development there. We also saw some frog-mouthed p.m. babies mooching for food, and oddly, a house sparrow who had taken up residence in one of the apartments. Damned invasives.<\/p>\n<p>A miserably hot day for both of us as well as for a panting robin we saw walking in the shade. Once we got back to my neighborhood, we stopped at a park where we noticed \u2014 for the first time \u2014 a purple martin house with a you-know-what sitting on the porch. So we could have saved ourselves the long trip north and just made a surgical strike from my air-conditioned lair. Damned p.m. houses at the damned Chicago Botanic Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s expedition, we were inspired to add the last local swallow to this year&#8217;s list. So we headed off to the Chicago Botanic Garden where we saw PURPLE MARTINS frolicking in their aptly named purple-martin houses. We only made the trip because we knew there was a p.m. house development there. We also saw [&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-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}