{"id":176,"date":"2011-08-09T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T22:05:27","slug":"coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/2011\/08\/09\/coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bagby-Scissor-tailed-Flycatcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173\" title=\"Bagby Scissor-tailed Flycatcher\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bagby-Scissor-tailed-Flycatcher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1156\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bagby-Scissor-tailed-Flycatcher.jpg 1156w, https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bagby-Scissor-tailed-Flycatcher-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bagby-Scissor-tailed-Flycatcher-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1156px) 100vw, 1156px\" \/><\/a>This sure seems to happen a lot. \u00a0While birding in the Sulphur Springs Valley this morning, I noticed a bunch of Western Kingbirds around. \u00a0I mentioned to my group that they should be on the lookout for Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and Eastern Kingbirds because, though rare in AZ, those two species occasionally get in with these big Western Kingbird congregations. \u00a0Less than a minute later, I spotted a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher flying across a field to everyone&#8217;s amazement. \u00a0I can think of a number of times that has happened to me just after speaking about the possibility of something showing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sure seems to happen a lot. \u00a0While birding in the Sulphur Springs Valley this morning, I noticed a bunch of Western Kingbirds around. \u00a0I mentioned to my group that they should be on the lookout for Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/2011\/08\/09\/coincidence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}