{"id":564,"date":"2004-05-26T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=564"},"modified":"2004-05-26T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T01:36:17","slug":"swan-swan-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Swan, swan, hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> saw a hummingbird. For Canadians (Atlantic Canadians only, I wonder?) that&#8217;s not a big deal. As a European, I&#8217;ve never seen one in my life. Not even the last years, while living here: I was either skeptic or plain unlucky. Skeptic, because I truly think that those animals shouldn&#8217;t be around these areas. I mean, it can be rather mean weather over here.\n<\/p>\n<p>And yes, they hover. Or actually, they zoom, zigzag, rollover and smile at you. You heard that right. They smile because apparently they like what&#8217;s inside the hummingbird feeder. And they eat it a lot. Which reminded me a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genx40.com\/archives\/2004\/may\/fastfeed\">Alan&#8217;s entry today about &#8216;fastfeed&#8217;<\/a>:  it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if we end up with obese hummingbirds this year. Smile!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a hummingbird. For Canadians (Atlantic Canadians only, I wonder?) that&#8217;s not a big deal. As a European, I&#8217;ve never seen one in my life. Not even the last years, while living here: I was either skeptic or plain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=564\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}