{"id":3651,"date":"2011-11-15T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2017-06-08T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:44:08","slug":"watching-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/11\/15\/watching-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The girl and I were in San Diego for a wedding and a birthday, and with my new Marriott Rewards Super-Awesome status we scored a free room in La Jolla.  Despite a forecast for a rainy weekend we woke up to clear skies Sunday morning and ventured out to find hundreds of pelicans on the cliffs.  Other highlights included calling my shot on the hotel&#8217;s wheel of fortune (free parking, thank you much), too much food, and an appearance by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorf_on_Golf\">Dorf<\/a> himself at Audrey&#8217;s grandmother&#8217;s 95th birthday bash.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2011-11-A\/5984_la_jolla_brown_pelican.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Brown Pelican, La Jolla\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">There&#8217;s probably a good reason why ages ago someone decided to call this bird a brown pelican, and that reason may be that they were colorblind.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2011-11-A\/6113_la_jolla_seabirds.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Seabirds, La Jolla\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Fun for the kids: how many sea lions are in this photo?  If you said more than four, you counted a rock.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2011-11-A\/6106_la_jolla_brown_pelican.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Brown Pelican, La Jolla\" class=\"img-main\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">It takes many, many cups of coffee to make my eyes look like his.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girl and I were in San Diego for a wedding and a birthday, and with my new Marriott Rewards Super-Awesome status we scored a free room in La Jolla. Despite a forecast for a rainy weekend we woke up to clear skies Sunday morning and ventured out to find hundreds of pelicans on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2011\/11\/15\/watching-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watching Birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,52],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-photography","tag-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11043,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/11043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}