{"id":2084,"date":"2012-07-06T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2013-11-16T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T12:18:47","slug":"birdwatching-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/07\/birdwatching-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdwatching In Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/beijing-woodpecker.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/beijing-woodpecker-157x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" title=\"beijing woodpecker\" width=\"157\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2086\" \/><\/a>Nothing makes my day like seeing woodpeckers in Beijing. And yesterday I saw two of them, flying from tree to tree along Jianguomen Wai.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/life\/2009-04\/27\/content_7719402_2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Woodpeckers<\/a> in Beijing? You probably think I&#8217;m insane. But this wasn&#8217;t a once-in-a-lifetime sighting. It&#8217;s the sixth time I&#8217;ve spotted a woodpecker inside the city, though it was the first time I&#8217;ve seen two together, in what my very unscientific mind has decided was a breeding pair.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the map below to see where each of my sightings took place:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/woodpecker-sightings-beijing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/woodpecker-sightings-beijing-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"woodpecker sightings beijing\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" size-medium wp-image-2085\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried to get a photo but with only my iPhone on hand, it was impossible to get anything more than a blurry mess. However, just knowing that those woodpeckers are out there, eating grubs and keeping the trees of Beijing healthy, makes me happy that I live in this city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing makes my day like seeing woodpeckers in Beijing. And yesterday I saw two of them, flying from tree to tree along Jianguomen Wai. Woodpeckers in Beijing? You probably think I&#8217;m insane. But this wasn&#8217;t a once-in-a-lifetime sighting. It&#8217;s the sixth time I&#8217;ve spotted a woodpecker inside the city, though it was the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2847,2036,2037,2846,2039,2038,2035],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acre","tag-beijing","tag-birds","tag-birdwatching","tag-china","tag-grubs","tag-jianguomen-wai","tag-woodpeckers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}