{"id":2462,"date":"2011-11-20T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2011-11-20T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:45:20","slug":"2462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"A bird. A what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">N<\/span>ow that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2463\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2463\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1672385289_86b33fa7cc_o-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A Maple Leaf\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1672385289_86b33fa7cc_o-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1672385289_86b33fa7cc_o-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1672385289_86b33fa7cc_o.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a> I&#8217;m a full-blooded Canadian (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2337\">previously<\/a>),there are a couple of distinctive things that make the difference between the continents I&#8217;ve lived on, North America and Europe. The five things that truly surprised me:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snow. During my very first snowstorm, I thought snow was sort of fun. When this snow kept on going for you know, a couple of more months, that &#8216;fun&#8217; part quickly faded away. It&#8217;s not really the snow amount that bothers me tho: it&#8217;s the fact that the snow keeps hanging around for a while because of the subzero temperatures.<\/li>\n<li>Seasonal awareness. You can literally feel and smell the seasonal changes: I&#8217;ve never really paid attention to this when I lived in Europe.<\/li>\n<li>The dramatic difference in fauna and wildlife. Seeing deer walk around surprised me. But raccouns, skunks, groundhogs, coyotes? Not to mention, the difference in birds: hummingbirds, cardinals and robins (&#8220;giant robins&#8221;) absolutely make up for the little birds I&#8217;ve seen and gotten used to in Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I remember the very first day I saw a Bluejay fly about and I was too stunned to figure out what I just had seen as I couldn&#8217;t properly name the bird. I wonder if that&#8217;s the same feeling the very first North American explorers had when they set foot on this continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;m a full-blooded Canadian (previously),there are a couple of distinctive things that make the difference between the continents I&#8217;ve lived on, North America and Europe. The five things that truly surprised me: Snow. During my very first snowstorm, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[162,501,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}