{"id":4245,"date":"2012-08-14T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2013-08-19T18:56:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T10:56:03","slug":"welcome-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/welcome-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0953.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4242\" alt=\"IMG_0953\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0953-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0953-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0953.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welcome_Swallow\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome Swallow<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsinbackyards.net\/species\/Hirundo-neoxena\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hirundo neoxena<\/em><\/a>) is a small <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passerine\" target=\"_blank\">passerine<\/a>\u00a0or perching\u00a0bird in the swallow family and is native to Australia. \u00a0It is called the welcome swallow\u00a0as its return is a herald of spring in southern parts of Australia. \u00a0The call is a mixture of twittering and soft warbling notes.\u00a0The nest is an open cup of mud and grass, made by both sexes, and is attached to a suitable structure, such as a vertical rock wall or building. The nest is lined with feathers and fur.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gould2_5-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welcome_Swallow#cite_note-Gould2-5\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena) is a small passerine\u00a0or perching\u00a0bird in the swallow family and is native to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0953.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}