{"id":12018,"date":"2014-02-12T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/?p=12018"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T23:46:00","slug":"day-43-ravens-are-spooky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/?p=12018","title":{"rendered":"Day 43 Ravens are Spooky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Ravens and Black Cats considered spooky? We see them both symbolized at Halloween as creepy and scary. \u00c2\u00a0Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s poem, referred to the raven as &#8220;a thing of evil! &#8211; prophet still, if bird or devil. Long before Poe&#8217;s poem, this bird was associated with death, bad fortune and the underworld. Do they deserve this fearsome reputation? I was told at the Death Valley book store that they are the smartest birds and can be taught to talk. They certainly like hanging out around visitor centers begging for handouts. This one was at Desert View Watchtower. He\/she was definitely there for a reason &#8211; a handout from some sympathetic tourist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12019\" alt=\"IMG_8021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8021-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8021-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8021.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12020\" alt=\"IMG_8020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8020-217x300.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8020-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_8020.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Ravens and Black Cats considered spooky? We see them both symbolized at Halloween as creepy and scary. \u00c2\u00a0Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s poem, referred to the raven as &#8220;a thing of evil! &#8211; prophet still, if bird or devil. Long before Poe&#8217;s poem, this bird was associated with death, bad fortune and the underworld. Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12021,"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions\/12021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.windowon.cherrypielane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}