{"id":1071,"date":"2007-04-23T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/a-california-brown-pelican\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T16:12:46","slug":"a-california-brown-pelican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/a-california-brown-pelican\/","title":{"rendered":"A California Brown Pelican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took this shot last Saturday from the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/interpretive-center\/\">Point Vicente Interpretive Center<\/a>. As we stood there on the cliffs watching the waves, this handsome pelican soared just overhead, as it rode the updrafts above the cliffs. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1070\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/brown-pelican.jpg\" alt=\"brown-pelican\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) is the smallest of the eight species of pelican, although it is a large bird in nearly every other regard. It is 42-54 in (106-137 cm) in length, weighs from 6-12 lbs (2.75 to 5.5 kg) and has a wingspan from 6 to 8.2 ft. (1.83 to 2.5 m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this shot last Saturday from the Point Vicente Interpretive Center. As we stood there on the cliffs watching the waves, this handsome pelican soared&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}