{"id":4221,"date":"2011-10-25T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2011-10-25T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:02:15","slug":"fly-little-birdie-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4221","title":{"rendered":"Fly little birdie, fly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Every now and then, when I&#8217;m out and about, I come across a bird that&#8217;s lying\u00a0on ground, stunned, having hit a window. I quickly snatch it into my hands so a preying cat doesn&#8217;t pounce on it. Then I hold it until it&#8217;s ready to fly again. Only once, did one of my birds &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;\u00a0eventually die. My little bird (below) spent about a hour under my care, slowly, slowly recuperating\u00a0before she flew away. First her eyes opened and started to blink, then she started to hold her head up on her own, and then her grip came back. I tried to put her on a low branch, but she wasn&#8217;t ready yet and fell off. Eventually, she flew off strong and\u00a0steady.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul McCartney&#8217;s song Bluebird was on my mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Late at night when the wind is still<br \/>\nI\u2019ll come flying through your door,<br \/>\nAnd you\u2019ll know what love is for.<br \/>\nI\u2019m a bluebird, I\u2019m a bluebird<br \/>\nI\u2019m a bluebird, l\u2019m a bluebird<br \/>\nYeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019m a bluebird, I\u2019m a bluebird,<br \/>\nI\u2019m a bluebird<br \/>\nYeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Touch your lips with a magic kiss<br \/>\nAnd you\u2019ll be a bluebird too,<br \/>\nAnd you\u2019ll know what love can do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019m a bluebird, l\u2019m a bluebird<br \/>\nYeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4224\" title=\"birds-8151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/birds-8151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4225\" title=\"birds-8135\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/birds-8135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4223\" title=\"birds-8090\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/birds-8090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wake up little bird!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4222\" title=\"birds-8088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/birds-8088.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4227\" title=\"birds-8085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/birds-80851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4228\" title=\"birds-8125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/birds-8125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, when I&#8217;m out and about, I come across a bird that&#8217;s lying\u00a0on ground, stunned, having hit a window. I quickly snatch it into my hands so a preying cat doesn&#8217;t pounce on it. Then I hold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4221\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[98,350,676],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get_out","tag-birds","tag-get-out","tag-paul-mccartney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}