{"id":2468,"date":"2023-12-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2023-11-22T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:12:11","slug":"advent-calendar-december-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/advent-calendar-december-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent calendar &#8211; December 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colourful morning to you all! <\/p>\n<p>Have you ever done something and thought &#8220;yeah, that&#8217;s quite neat&#8221;, and then left it, gone back to admire it a month or two later and thought &#8220;What? What was I thinking?&#8221; and then gone over it again, improving, modifying, enhancing, left it for a while, then gone back to it again and again thought &#8220;What the hell?&#8221; Yes? Then you know the feeling that I had before getting to this image with the Great Crested Grebes! <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a danger that if I ever come back and read this post after a few months have passed that I may want to delete it, if I have the energy to make another attempt at improving this image.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2474\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/advent-calendar-december-15th\/attachment\/advent-15-gcgrebes-watercolour3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/advent-15-gcgrebes-watercolour3.gif?fit=620%2C445&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,445\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"advent-15-gcgrebes-watercolour3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/advent-15-gcgrebes-watercolour3.gif?fit=620%2C445&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/advent-15-gcgrebes-watercolour3.gif?resize=582%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2474\" width=\"582\" height=\"417\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Do something today that your future self will thank you for<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever watched a pair of Great Crested Grebes displaying and thought how truly wonderful birds are? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colourful morning to you all! Have you ever done something and thought &#8220;yeah, that&#8217;s quite neat&#8221;, and then left it, gone back to admire it a month or two later and thought &#8220;What? What was I thinking?&#8221; and then gone over it again, improving, modifying, enhancing, left it for a while, then gone back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[288,22,57,207,299,15,297],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain","tag-advent-calendar","tag-birding","tag-birds","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-quote","tag-spain","tag-winter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-DO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}