{"id":3655,"date":"2010-02-10T23:18:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2010-02-10T23:18:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:18:03","slug":"pigeon-pilates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=3655","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon Pilates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or so I call it . . . also fondly known as Pigeon Tai Chi . . . or simply, the Pigeon Stretch. It&#8217;s that endearing things birds do &#8212; wild and domestic both &#8212; leg extended under outstretched wing, releasing tension from their hard-working limbs. I always appreciate a wild-bird stretch when I&#8217;m out photographing. I&#8217;m deluded into believing they don&#8217;t mind me too much if they engage in a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Below, a few warmup moves from a beloved racing pigeon, Clive. The last photo is a Willet (shorebird), also in a stretch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taylar\/4335444279\/\" title=\"Racing Pigeon Pilates by ingridtaylar, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4018\/4335444279_ed5121ecfb_b.jpg\" width=\"680\" alt=\"Racing Pigeon Stretch\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pigeon Pilates<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taylar\/4335445117\/\" title=\"Racing Pigeon Pilates by ingridtaylar, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4335445117_20d3bc822d_b.jpg\" width=\"680\" alt=\"Racing Pigeon Stretch\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pigeon Pilates<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taylar\/4336188764\/\" title=\"Racing Pigeon Pilates by ingridtaylar, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4336188764_29b6270e71_b.jpg\" width=\"680\" alt=\"Racing Pigeon Stretch\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pigeon Pilates<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_3704\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/willetstretch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/willetstretch.jpg\" alt=\"Willet Stretching\" title=\"willetstretch\" width=\"680\" height=\"474\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/willetstretch-200x139.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/willetstretch-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/willetstretch-400x279.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/willetstretch-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/willetstretch.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willet in a Stretch - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so I call it . . . also fondly known as Pigeon Tai Chi . . . or simply, the Pigeon Stretch. It&#8217;s that endearing things birds do &#8212; wild and domestic both &#8212; leg extended under outstretched wing, releasing tension from their hard-working limbs. I always appreciate a wild-bird stretch when I&#8217;m out photographing. I&#8217;m deluded into believing they don&#8217;t mind me too much if they engage in a stretch. Below, a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=3655\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pigeons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","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=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}