{"id":259,"date":"2010-04-05T18:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/04\/05\/100405_mockingbird\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:39:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T23:39:32","slug":"100405_mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/04\/05\/100405_mockingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Mockingbird Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">As I sat on the front porch yesterday afternoon reading a book and enjoying the nice weather, I was aurally accosted by a loud-mouthed intruder who was so enamored with his own voice, I suspect he&#8217;d make an excellent Senator.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/misc\/mockingbird.mp3\"><br \/>\nYour browser does not support the<br \/>\n<code>audio<\/code> element.<br \/>\n<\/audio><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Just kidding. Mockingbirds are too smart to run for public office; they&#8217;re more like lobbyists. Anyway, if you don&#8217;t have any of these birds in your neighborhood, you may enjoy hearing one show off.<\/p>\n<p><i>Technical details: I recorded this on my iPhone, imported the recording into iTunes, then opened it in Adobe Soundbooth CS4 where I trimmed the beginning and ending, increased the loudness, and used the noise filter to remove the, um, noise caused by the breezy ambient conditions. The resulting recording is a pretty good showcase for the bird&#8217;s vocal versatility.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat on the front porch yesterday afternoon reading a book and enjoying the nice weather, I was aurally accosted by a loud-mouthed intruder who was so enamored with his own voice, I suspect he&#8217;d make an excellent Senator. Your browser does not support the audio element. Just kidding. Mockingbirds are too smart to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/04\/05\/100405_mockingbird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mockingbird Recording<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}