{"id":1484,"date":"2003-07-08T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2003-07-08T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T14:03:00","slug":"feeder-finches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Feeder Finches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FeederFinch.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/FeederFinch.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nBy which I mean a finch at the feeder, not a finch to feed to things.  Normally I wouldn&#8217;t feel the need to clarify this sort of thing, but I know that pet stores have tanks of &#8220;feeder goldfish&#8221; and cages of &#8220;feeder mice&#8221; so better safe than sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a stack of other photos from this unexpectedly long weekend&#8230; I&#8217;ll be posting them and some of the stories that go with them as I have time.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis little guy is on the bird feeder in my front yard.  He&#8217;s kind of a cat toy in some respects&#8230; The cats aren&#8217;t allowed outside, but they love looking out the window, so we set this up for their benefit.  Kind of like givind a sport fisherman tickets to Seaworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By which I mean a finch at the feeder, not a finch to feed to things. Normally I wouldn&#8217;t feel the need to clarify this sort of thing, but I know that pet stores have tanks of &#8220;feeder goldfish&#8221; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}