{"id":2641,"date":"2013-01-06T23:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2013-01-08T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:15:46","slug":"the-black-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"The Black Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2642\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130106_050305.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2642\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130106_050305-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"The Black Menace\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130106_050305-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130106_050305-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130106_050305-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130106_050305-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130106_050305.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Menace<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t too many years ago that the crow population around here was seriously diminished by West Nile virus. They seem to have made a pretty decent recovery since then and I see great flocks of them now. Recently there has been a flock moving around in our neighborhood, sometimes in our yard. When they come they are impossible to ignore completely, making such a racket.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home today I saw them at the local elementary school. I pulled into the parking lot and took a few pictures, including this one of &#x201c;The Black Menace.&#x201d; If you&#8217;ve seen the 1948 movie, <em>Bill and Coo<\/em> you should get the reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t too many years ago that the crow population around here was seriously diminished by West Nile virus. They seem to have made a pretty decent recovery since then and I see great flocks of them now. Recently there has been a flock moving around in our neighborhood, sometimes in our yard. When they &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2641\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"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=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}