{"id":1692,"date":"2006-03-14T06:26:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/old-news\/"},"modified":"2006-03-12T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T23:27:24","slug":"old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/old-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Old News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/441248metro03-12-06.htm\">ABQjournal: Bird Causes Backyard Bonanza<\/a> By Julie Medina, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>The bird was first seen on Pueblo Solano NW in the North Valley on <strong>Dec. 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>    Bratton said she was lucky and saw it when she was taking her daughter to horseback riding lessons.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;I remember telling my daughter, wouldn&#8217;t it be fun if it came to our feeder,&#8221; Bratton said.<\/p>\n<p>    On <strong>Feb. 21<\/strong>, her wish came true. Bratton saw the same bird, with the protruding lower bill, eating at her feeder.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/abqwild\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/35\/104035043_b521420b72_o.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"325\" alt=\"Albuquerque's Yellow Grosbeak\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>On March 12th, the Albuquerque Journal, having exhausted everyone&#8217;s interest in Calvary Chapel many times over, discovered the yellow grosbeak in Albuquerque, 3+ months after the Trib and 2.5 weeks after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bird-man-of-albuquerque-no-not-me\/\">a couple of local bloggers<\/a>. But, hey, more people are interested in a far-from-rare televangelist than a bird, right? <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS: Knowing that one of my 3 regular readers works for the Journal, I always worry this may be the last straw. But that camel&#8217;s got back, baby! At least, I never refer to it as the &#8220;Urinal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Bird Causes Backyard Bonanza By Julie Medina, Journal Staff Writer The bird was first seen on Pueblo Solano NW in the North Valley on Dec. 1. Bratton said she was lucky and saw it when she was taking her daughter to horseback riding lessons. &#8220;I remember telling my daughter, wouldn&#8217;t it be fun if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/old-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}