{"id":1433,"date":"2015-04-24T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2015-04-24T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T12:15:11","slug":"gull-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/04\/24\/gull-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Gull Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4789_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_4789_11-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4789_1\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a phenomena I&#8217;ve noticed at Alki.\u00a0 Right after sunset, a breeze reliably kicks up for about fifteen minutes.\u00a0 During that time all the Seagulls take flight and seem to totally delight in the breeze.\u00a0 They say that hummingbirds are the only birds that can hover and maintain a stationary position in the air.\u00a0 Not so under these conditions.\u00a0 The gulls will often shape their wings such that, positioned into the wind, they get just enough lift to maintain a stationary position falling into the wind like a kite with no visible tether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a phenomena I&#8217;ve noticed at Alki.\u00a0 Right after sunset, a breeze reliably kicks up for about fifteen minutes.\u00a0 During that time all the Seagulls take flight and seem to totally delight in the breeze.\u00a0 They say that hummingbirds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/04\/24\/gull-play\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}