{"id":13767,"date":"2014-12-25T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=13767"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:43:44","slug":"the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13768\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14D_9266-SOU-football-daytona-seagulls.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13768\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14D_9266-SOU-football-daytona-seagulls.jpg\" alt=\"SOU football daytona seagulls\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birds attack the Daytona Hilton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A week ago today, this happened.<\/p>\n<p>No, it wasn&#8217;t an Alfred Hitchcock remake, although it felt like it.<\/p>\n<p>I walked into my room in the Daytona Beach Hilton to see dozens of seagulls apparently attacking my window. Curious, but a bit afraid, I entered my balcony carefully so as to make sure no birds entered my room. As I peered over the edge a piece of airborne bagel nearly greeted me from below. The bagel was within six inches of my nose when a bird snatched it out of the air.<\/p>\n<p>How did the bagel get there? This guy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13769\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14D_9263-SOU-football-daytona-austin-dodge-feeding-seagulls.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13769\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/14D_9263-SOU-football-daytona-austin-dodge-feeding-seagulls.jpg\" alt=\"SOU football daytona austin dodge feeding seagulls\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/2014-naia-football-player-of-the-year\/>Austin Dodge<\/a> feeding seagulls<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago today, this happened. No, it wasn&#8217;t an Alfred Hitchcock remake, although it felt like it. I walked into my room in the Daytona Beach Hilton to see dozens of seagulls apparently attacking my window. Curious, but a bit afraid, I entered my balcony carefully so as to make sure no birds entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[544,447,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32766,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions\/32766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}