{"id":852,"date":"2004-08-31T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/rio-grande-nature-center\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T00:42:55","slug":"rio-grande-nature-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/rio-grande-nature-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Grande Nature Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/image\/riogrande20040831.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Rio Grand Nature Center\" \/><br \/>\nSunday morning I drove to the Rio Grande Nature Center.  Even there, it is hard to forget that you are in the middle of a desert.  <\/p>\n<p>While I took this photo, some Canada geese flew in and out making a tremendous racket.  Later, I saw a roadrunner.  One of the watchers, a birder, lent me her field glasses so I could get a better look.  I find them entrancing, probably due to an overexposure of Saturday morning cartoons as a child.  Back then, I rooted for the bird, though now I have a sneaking sympathy for poor old Wile E. Coyote.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday morning I drove to the Rio Grande Nature Center. Even there, it is hard to forget that you are in the middle of a desert. While I took this photo, some Canada geese flew in and out making a tremendous racket. Later, I saw a roadrunner. One of the watchers, a birder, lent me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/rio-grande-nature-center\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rio Grande Nature Center<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}