{"id":406,"date":"2015-04-18T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T02:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2015-04-18T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T02:56:01","slug":"born-into-radiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Born into Radiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the collective noun for cardinals is &#8220;radiance&#8221;? A radiance of cardinals. When they first hatch, cardinals are small, weak, blind, and needy &#8211; hardly bright or brilliant. They are a radiance because of whose they are; their shine comes from belonging. \u00a0In about 10 days these red balls of fuzz grow to feathered fledglings, radiating into my garden, my trees, and far beyond &#8211; then back again. Always radiant, together.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_408\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/radiance-of-cardinals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"size-large wp-image-408\" title=\"radiance of cardinals\" src=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/radiance-of-cardinals-1024x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/radiance-of-cardinals-1024x260.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/radiance-of-cardinals-300x76.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/radiance-of-cardinals-500x127.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nothing will get a bird out of the nest faster than a giant watching with a camera.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the collective noun for cardinals is &#8220;radiance&#8221;? A radiance of cardinals. When they first hatch, cardinals are small, weak, blind, and needy &#8211; hardly bright or brilliant. They are a radiance because of whose they are; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maryology.com\/?p=406\">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":[56,52,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-family","category-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}