{"id":5025,"date":"2010-04-08T00:19:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T07:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2010-04-08T00:19:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T07:19:40","slug":"melee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=5025","title":{"rendered":"Melee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No notes on this one . . . just gulls doing what gulls do . . . a skirmish over a bit of food.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, one note. Remember the pop-culture phenom that was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull\">Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/a>? I was a kid when the book was released, and always thought this fable was one case where anthropomorphism, comparing the Breakfast Flock to material humans, did the gulls a disservice. Come to think of it, anthropomorphism doesn&#8217;t necessarily elevate the animals.<\/p>\n<p>One version of the Breakfast Flock:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5026\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/melee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/melee.jpg\" alt=\"Gull Feeding Frenzy\" title=\"melee\" width=\"680\" height=\"572\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/melee-200x168.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/melee-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/melee-400x336.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/melee-600x505.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/melee.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gull Frenzy - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No notes on this one . . . just gulls doing what gulls do . . . a skirmish over a bit of food. Okay, one note . . .<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/04\/melee\/\">[see the full-size photo &#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":[93,418],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feeding","tag-gulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","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=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}