{"id":513,"date":"2011-11-16T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2011-11-16T20:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:01:52","slug":"wild-turkeys-on-roof-native-american-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/wild-turkeys-on-roof-native-american-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Turkeys on My Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Native Americans.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyOntheRoof_closeup1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-516\" title=\"turkeyOntheRoof_closeup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyOntheRoof_closeup1-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyOntheRoof_closeup1-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyOntheRoof_closeup1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyOntheRoof_closeup1.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThanksgiving is coming, but do these turkeys care?<\/p>\n<p>And who said that turkeys can&#8217;t fly?<\/p>\n<p>In our neighborhood, in our city, wild turkeys roam the streets in flocks of eight to twelve turkeys. They walk slowly, and stop at each home and peck the ground to see if they can find food.<\/p>\n<p>They abound in the autumn, but we see them also in the summer and even in the spring. They live in the woods nearby, and come out during the day.<\/p>\n<p>When they open their wings to fly up or to fly back down, they are powerful flyers.<\/p>\n<p>In our neighborhood, turkeys are a protected species and are native to North America.\u00a0 People who are driving\u00a0 their cars slow down to watch, or to let them pass.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_519\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyontheGate_79.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"size-large wp-image-519 \" title=\"turkeyontheGate_79\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyontheGate_79-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyontheGate_79-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyontheGate_79-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/turkeyontheGate_79.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wild turkey on my gate<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy Thanksgiving!!<strong>Happy Thanksgiving!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native Americans. Thanksgiving is coming, but do these turkeys care? And who said that turkeys can&#8217;t fly? In our neighborhood, in our city, wild turkeys roam the streets in flocks of eight to twelve turkeys. They walk slowly, and stop at each home and peck the ground to see if they can find food. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-nature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}