{"id":9673,"date":"2011-08-24T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2011-08-24T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:14:41","slug":"if-a-heron-had-written-your-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9673","title":{"rendered":"If a Heron Had Written &#8220;Your Song&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh and I watched two herons dance around the idea of landing on this roof, skirting the aerial chaos of gulls along Alki Beach. One finally planted its feet on the A-frame, while the other lurked in a tree above. Looking at the pic, Hugh started singing the lyric from Elton John&#8217;s <i>Your Song<\/i> &#8230; &#8220;I sat on the roof &#8230; and kicked off the moss &#8230; &#8221; It occurred to me that the heron would have a slightly different take. Hence the title of this shot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I sat on the roof &#8230; and kicked off the moss &#8230; well a few of the <b>seagulls<\/b> &#8230; well, they&#8217;ve got me quite cross.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_9674\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Heron-House.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Heron-House.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron on Roof at Alki\" title=\"Heron House\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9674\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Up On the Roof - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9675\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Herons-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Herons-500.jpg\" alt=\"Heron Perched on Seattle Roof\" title=\"Herons 500\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9675\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lurking - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mTa8U0Wa0q8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Ewan McGregor&#8217;s cover from <a href=\"<https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0203009\/\">Moulin Rouge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ma_u_rnlNBA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh and I watched two herons dance around the idea of landing on this roof, skirting the aerial chaos of gulls along Alki Beach. One finally planted its feet on the A-frame, while the other lurked in a tree above. Looking at the pic, Hugh started singing the lyric from Elton John&#8217;s Your Song &#8230; &#8220;I sat on the roof &#8230; and kicked off the moss &#8230; &#8221; It occurred to me that the heron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9673\"> [&#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":[504,157],"class_list":["post-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-herons","tag-urban-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","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=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}