{"id":480,"date":"2014-02-08T20:29:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T20:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/?p=480"},"modified":"2014-02-08T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T20:29:38","slug":"resplendent-quetzal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/2014\/02\/08\/resplendent-quetzal\/","title":{"rendered":"Resplendent Quetzal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/files\/2014\/02\/Quetzal_best_low.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-495\" alt=\"Quetzal_best_low\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/files\/2014\/02\/Quetzal_best_low-1024x772.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1494\/files\/2014\/02\/Quetzal_best_low-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1494\/files\/2014\/02\/Quetzal_best_low-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1494\/files\/2014\/02\/Quetzal_best_low-397x300.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Species of the Day: Resplendent Quetzal! This is the male &#8211; you can tell by its long tail feathers, which it uses to attract the female. Why such long feathers? Clearly useless for flying, the thinking goes that if a male can survive with such an apparent disadvantage, he must really be worth having as a &#8216;husband&#8217;. The Maya considered this bird &#8220;God of the Air&#8221;. Thanks for the encouragement with the photos everyone. We will continue to torture you with more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Species of the Day: Resplendent Quetzal! This is the male &#8211; you can tell by its long tail feathers, which it uses to attract the female. Why such long feathers? Clearly useless for flying, the thinking goes that if a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/2014\/02\/08\/resplendent-quetzal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/tropicalhummingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}