{"id":692,"date":"2013-04-25T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2020-09-13T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T22:32:43","slug":"yellow-bellied-sapsucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-bellied Sapsucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Every spring I look for Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in my back yard here in West Des Moines, as they migrate north to their breeding grounds.&nbsp; Sometimes I find none, but this year was a banner year.&nbsp; At least four individuals showed up one early April day.&nbsp; Here is a picture of one of them, as he worked over one of the bigger trees in our ravine looking, I suppose, for sap.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/april-may-2013\/blog-photo.jpg\" alt=\"blog-photo\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every spring I look for Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in my back yard here in West Des Moines, as they migrate north to their breeding grounds.&nbsp; Sometimes I find none, but this year was a banner year.&nbsp; At least four individuals showed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-iowabirding","category-northamericanbirding","category-yardbirding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}