{"id":2288,"date":"2020-06-08T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:40:00","slug":"running-out-of-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Running out of &#8220;north&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/us-fish-and-wildlife-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/us-fish-and-wildlife-photo.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/us-fish-and-wildlife-photo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/us-fish-and-wildlife-photo-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/us-fish-and-wildlife-photo-431x300.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a newspaper series, I recently interviewed a local naturalist who has a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Iowa.  She said with temperatures warming, this is pushing migratory birds farther and farther north each year.  You know, you have to wonder if at some point they&#8217;re just going to run out of &#8220;north&#8221;?  What&#8217;s more, during a talk several years ago, I heard an environmentalist say that after all the trees are gone, all the birds are gone&#8230; next is: all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a newspaper series, I recently interviewed a local naturalist who has a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Iowa. She said with temperatures warming, this is pushing migratory birds farther and farther north each year. You <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2288\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}