{"id":454,"date":"2009-12-09T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T00:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:34:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T00:34:30","slug":"in-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/in-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memorial&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_455\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-455\" href=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/in-memorial\/200912_3431-edit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-455\" class=\"size-full wp-image-455\" title=\"200912_3431-Edit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/200912_3431-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF50mm f\/2.5 Compact Macro__1\/3 sec at f \/ 32\" width=\"585\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/200912_3431-Edit.jpg 585w, https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/200912_3431-Edit-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF50mm f\/2.5 Compact Macro__1\/3 sec at f \/ 32<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, not long after the snowstorm had cleared off, I heard a loud crashing noise outside my house.\u00a0 Both my 8 year old son and I were alarmed and so we looked out the front door where we thought the sound had come.\u00a0 We saw nothing at first.\u00a0 On occasion, we have quail fly into a window.\u00a0 Searching further, we looked out a narrow window in my living room, we saw a sad site.\u00a0 A Cooper&#8217;s hawk lay on the ground, twitching in its last moments before dying.<\/p>\n<p>As a memorial to this beautiful creature, I made this photograph of its wing feathers.\u00a0 The late afternoon sun backlit the feather patterns.\u00a0 I did not want this life to pass without a tribute to its elegance.<\/p>\n<p>Bill<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, not long after the snowstorm had cleared off, I heard a loud crashing noise outside my house.\u00a0 Both my 8 year old son and I were alarmed and so we looked out the front door where we thought&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/in-memorial\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,68,76,12],"tags":[79,78,77,81,80],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-photography","category-nature","category-natures-design","category-photography","tag-bird","tag-feather","tag-hawk","tag-sierra-neveda","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}