{"id":55,"date":"2008-12-09T11:19:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T11:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:21:47","slug":"the-best-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/the-best-medicine","title":{"rendered":"The best medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months I&#8217;ve felt as healthy as I ever have, no doubt the amount of time I spend outdoors has played a big part in this; it&#8217;s genuinely good for mind, body and soul. Then, yesterday morning, when the alarm woke me, I felt grim&#8230;really grim. Aching limbs, sore throat, stiff neck, headache. Having now endured about 24 hours of &#8216;man-flu&#8217; jibes I&#8217;m feeling human again, although I&#8217;ll probably spend the rest of the day keeping warm and not over-exerting myself. As an added bonus, the weather is lovely, clear blue sky and a good overnight frost. So, what more excuse could I need to watch the comings and goings at our feeding station? This morning has seen 5 or 6 blackbirds in the garden &#8211; and a lot of aggression on our extension roof as they all seek to attain dominance. There was a &#8216;coming-together&#8217; of Sparrowhawk and Kestrel over our house as well, but I didn&#8217;t witness the outcome of that as the birds disappeared away over the church and out of sight. Which will\/won&#8217;t appear\/re-appear? Guess I&#8217;ll just have to keep watching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months I&#8217;ve felt as healthy as I ever have, no doubt the amount of time I spend outdoors has played a big part in this; it&#8217;s genuinely good for mind, body and soul. Then, yesterday morning, when the alarm woke me, I felt grim&#8230;really grim. Aching limbs, sore throat, stiff neck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}