{"id":20176,"date":"2021-01-24T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20176"},"modified":"2021-04-28T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:52:00","slug":"great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20176","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20177\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_20210124_181096.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20177\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_20210124_181096-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_20210124_181096-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_20210124_181096-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_20210124_181096-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_20210124_181096-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_20210124_181096.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went for a walk on the C&#038;O Canal this afternoon, heading northwest from Pennyfield Lock. We saw a few great blue herons Great (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>), including this one who posed for us very nicely. It was a lovely day and really good to be outdoors. The canal is nice, especially a little ways out from Great Falls Tavern, because it&#8217;s open and there aren&#8217;t a lot of people. More people than on some trails but not so many it&#8217;s a pain, trying to keep our distance from everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went for a walk on the C&#038;O Canal this afternoon, heading northwest from Pennyfield Lock. We saw a few great blue herons Great (Ardea herodias), including this one who posed for us very nicely. It was a lovely day and really good to be outdoors. The canal is nice, especially a little ways out &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[837,429,48,61,298,63,62,2755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20180,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176\/revisions\/20180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}