{"id":7703,"date":"2013-05-12T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2013-05-12T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T15:34:35","slug":"from-drab-to-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7703","title":{"rendered":"From drab to bling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two birds visited on the same day. Each was emblematic of its status: one, a model of drabness; the other, the\u00a0epitome\u00a0of bling. It says a good deal for the versatility of evolution that each was rather well suited to the conditions it faced.<\/p>\n<p>The female House Finch is drab. It seems to rely heavily upon being inconspicuous.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7704\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/finch130510s2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The male Rufous Hummingbird wears\u00a0bling: an iridescent gorget of pink, red, yellow, and \u00a0green.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7705\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rufoushummingbird130510s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two birds visited on the same day. Each was emblematic of its status: one, a model of drabness; the other, the\u00a0epitome\u00a0of bling. It says a good deal for the versatility of evolution that each was rather well suited to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7711,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}