{"id":21138,"date":"2016-02-24T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/winter-salute\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:00:52","slug":"winter-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/winter-salute\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Salute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p \/>\n<p>A fleet of tiny brown birds<\/p>\n<p>charges my windshield<\/p>\n<p>changes direction <\/p>\n<p>retreats in formation.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Minutes later they reappear,<\/p>\n<p>perform precision acrobatics<\/p>\n<p>in a blank sky;<\/p>\n<p>banking, rising, dipping, diving.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Forced to attention, I salute<\/p>\n<p>such tactical maneuvers,<\/p>\n<p>so stealthily appearing <\/p>\n<p>so triumphantly gone. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Diane DeSloover is a long time resident of Juneau, grateful for the inspiration to be found in this natural home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fleet of tiny brown birds charges my windshield changes direction retreats in formation. Minutes later they reappear, perform precision acrobatics in a blank sky; banking, rising, dipping, diving. Forced to attention, I salute such tactical maneuvers, so stealthily appearing so triumphantly gone. Diane DeSloover is a long time resident of Juneau, grateful for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}