{"id":94,"date":"2008-07-15T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:34:53","slug":"roadrunner-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/roadrunner-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadrunner Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We spotted these two roadrunners (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geococcyx\">Geococcyx, according to Wikipedia<\/a>) sparring in the library parking lot.\u00a0 There was a third bird nearby just watching.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if this was two males fighting over a female, or a male courting a female while another bird watched.\u00a0 Either way, they are very cool when they run.\u00a0 The guys who animated the velociraptors in Jurassic Park must have studied roadrunners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20080715225720_roadrunnershowdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20080715225720_roadrunnershowdown.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20080715225720_roadrunnershowdown-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spotted these two roadrunners (Geococcyx, according to Wikipedia) sparring in the library parking lot.\u00a0 There was a third bird nearby just watching.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if this was two males fighting over a female, or a male courting a female while another bird watched.\u00a0 Either way, they are very cool when they run.\u00a0 The <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/roadrunner-showdown\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abq-strange.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}