{"id":15522,"date":"2013-03-06T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewildbeat.com\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2020-08-02T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:06:05","slug":"seattle-birds-on-a-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=15522","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Birds on a Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;no&#8221; equal_height_columns=&#8221;no&#8221; menu_anchor=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center center&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; fade=&#8221;no&#8221; background_parallax=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; video_mp4=&#8221;&#8221; video_webm=&#8221;&#8221; video_ogv=&#8221;&#8221; video_url=&#8221;&#8221; video_aspect_ratio=&#8221;16:9&#8243; video_loop=&#8221;yes&#8221; video_mute=&#8221;yes&#8221; overlay_color=&#8221;&#8221; video_preview_image=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=&#8221;1_1&#8243; layout=&#8221;1_1&#8243; background_position=&#8221;left top&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; border_position=&#8221;all&#8221; spacing=&#8221;yes&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; margin_top=&#8221;0px&#8221; margin_bottom=&#8221;0px&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;&#8221; animation_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; animation_direction=&#8221;left&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; center_content=&#8221;no&#8221; last=&#8221;no&#8221; min_height=&#8221;&#8221; hover_type=&#8221;none&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_text columns=&#8221;&#8221; column_min_width=&#8221;&#8221; column_spacing=&#8221;&#8221; rule_style=&#8221;default&#8221; rule_size=&#8221;&#8221; rule_color=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">\n<p>Like a bird on the wire,<br \/>Like a drunk in a midnight choir<br \/>I have tried in my way to be free.<br \/>Like a worm on a hook,<br \/>Like a knight from some old fashioned book<br \/>I have saved all my ribbons for thee.<br \/>If I, if I have been unkind,<br \/>I hope that you can just let it go by.<br \/>If I, if I have been untrue<br \/>I hope you know it was never to you.<\/p>\n<p>~ <i>Bird on a Wire<\/i> by Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_15527\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewildbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BirdonaWire.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15527\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewildbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BirdonaWire.jpg\" alt=\"Starlings on a wire in Seattle\" width=\"750\" height=\"521\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The right scene and right song for a deep drizzling mist outside my window. This flock of Starlings perched across the Seattle cityscape. Where in the old days I&#8217;d see a skyline marred by wires, now I see potential. This is the same spot where I photographed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewildbeat.com\/2013\/01\/northern-flickering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">territorial display of Northern Flickers<\/a> in January &#8230; also on a white day of winter vapors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Photographed with the Olympus OM-D + Lumix 100-300mm \u2022 Processed in Lightroom and SilverEfexPro<\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bird on a Wire &#8211; Leonard Cohen<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGvwvxA83Cs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[\/fusion_text][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;no&#8221; equal_height_columns=&#8221;no&#8221; menu_anchor=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center center&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; fade=&#8221;no&#8221; background_parallax=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; video_mp4=&#8221;&#8221; video_webm=&#8221;&#8221; video_ogv=&#8221;&#8221; video_url=&#8221;&#8221; video_aspect_ratio=&#8221;16:9&#8243; video_loop=&#8221;yes&#8221; video_mute=&#8221;yes&#8221; overlay_color=&#8221;&#8221; video_preview_image=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=&#8221;1_1&#8243; layout=&#8221;1_1&#8243; background_position=&#8221;left top&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; border_position=&#8221;all&#8221; spacing=&#8221;yes&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;&#8221; padding_right=&#8221;&#8221; padding_bottom=&#8221;&#8221; padding_left=&#8221;&#8221; margin_top=&#8221;0px&#8221; margin_bottom=&#8221;0px&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;&#8221; animation_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; animation_direction=&#8221;left&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; center_content=&#8221;no&#8221; last=&#8221;no&#8221; min_height=&#8221;&#8221; hover_type=&#8221;none&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221;][fusion_text columns=&#8221;&#8221; column_min_width=&#8221;&#8221; column_spacing=&#8221;&#8221; rule_style=&#8221;default&#8221; rule_size=&#8221;&#8221; rule_color=&#8221;&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221;] Like a bird on the wire,Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=15522\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,13],"tags":[620,281,1833],"class_list":["post-15522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildbeat","category-birds","tag-birds","tag-fog","tag-starlings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}