{"id":4435,"date":"2010-04-15T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:37:25","slug":"beautiful-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/15\/beautiful-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"beautiful bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the local news all a-buzz about the red-tailed hawk chicks hatching in downtown Portland, I thought that a bird of another feather might appreciate a moment in the limited lime-light that this blog is able to provide. \u00a0I present to you “Bird”, a peacock who lives near the Badbeard Roastery off of Johnson Creek Blvd, wearing his Sunday best.<\/p>\n

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Da Bird, strutting his stuff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the local news all a-buzz about the red-tailed hawk chicks hatching in downtown Portland, I thought that a bird of another feather might appreciate a moment in the limited lime-light that this blog is able to provide. \u00a0I present to you “Bird”, a peacock who lives near the Badbeard Roastery off of Johnson Creek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,24],"tags":[3666,320,3662],"class_list":["post-4435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-photography","tag-oregon","tag-photo","tag-portland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-19x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":174,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/18\/musicians-on-the-bus\/","url_meta":{"origin":4435,"position":0},"title":"musicians ON the bus","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo credit: Cameron R. 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