{"id":1725,"date":"2004-04-14T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2004-04-14T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T14:30:43","slug":"grey-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Grey bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GreyBird.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/GreyBird.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nA bird at the feeder on the back of my in-laws&#8217; house.  I don&#8217;t know what <b>kind<\/b> of bird&#8230;  My mom probably would.  She&#8217;s got the whole bird watching and identification thing going for her&#8230;  It&#8217;s a skill that I&#8217;ve never acquired.  On the other hand, after years of working tech support, I can identify different types and vintages of Macintosh computers just from a glance at the front bezel&#8230;  Usually the opportunity crops up when watching movies and TV shows.   It&#8217;s a completely useless chunk of knowledge, sort of the geek equivalent of knowing the stats for baseball games and players from the early 1900&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bird at the feeder on the back of my in-laws&#8217; house. I don&#8217;t know what kind of bird&#8230; My mom probably would. She&#8217;s got the whole bird watching and identification thing going for her&#8230; It&#8217;s a skill that I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1725\">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-1725","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\/1725","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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}