{"id":6243,"date":"2013-07-08T01:54:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2013-07-08T01:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T06:54:41","slug":"look-up-bird-watching-in-your-own-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/look-up-bird-watching-in-your-own-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51WoG7XVevL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0763645613\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0763645613&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20\">Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard<\/a><br \/>\nby Annette LeBlanc Cate (Author, Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> You don\u2019t have to own binoculars and know a bunch of fancy Latin names to watch birds! No matter where you live, they\u2019re in your neighborhood \u2014 just look up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> I wasn&#8217;t always a bird-watcher, but several years ago, I thought it would be nice to keep a nature sketchbook. When I sat outside to draw trees and rocks and flowers, I couldn&#8217;t help but begin to notice lots of birds, some that I knew and some that I didn&#8217;t, flitting around the edges of my drawings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s Nonfiction Monday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate (Author, Illustrator) Booktalk: You don\u2019t have to own binoculars and know a bunch of fancy Latin names to watch birds! No matter where you live, they\u2019re in your neighborhood \u2014 just look up. Snippet: I wasn&#8217;t always a bird-watcher, but several years ago, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/look-up-bird-watching-in-your-own-backyard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-nonfiction-monday","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}