{"id":298,"date":"2010-06-11T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/06\/11\/100611_whitedove\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T21:32:34","slug":"100611_whitedove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/06\/11\/100611_whitedove\/","title":{"rendered":"Paging Ferlin Husky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I glanced through the window on our front door and saw this fellow crouching on the porch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/whitedove.jpg\" alt=\"White dove atop ceramic iguana\"><\/div>\n<p>At first, I thought it was a pigeon, but after observing him for a while, I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s a dove. I&#8217;ve seen white wild doves before, but they are not common.<\/p>\n<p>He seemed a bit wilted by the heat, but not overly distressed. I walked within two feet of him several times and he didn&#8217;t back away. Debbie put out a shallow plastic bowl of water and he climbed onto the side and took a few drinks. Later, he walked over and conquered the ceramic iguana.<\/p>\n<p>After about 20 minutes of investigating the flowerbed and surroundings, he disappeared. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s an omen, but darned if I know of what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I glanced through the window on our front door and saw this fellow crouching on the porch. At first, I thought it was a pigeon, but after observing him for a while, I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s a dove. I&#8217;ve seen white wild doves before, but they are not common. He seemed a bit wilted by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/06\/11\/100611_whitedove\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paging Ferlin Husky<\/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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8986,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}