{"id":65766,"date":"2016-05-13T12:33:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65766"},"modified":"2016-05-13T12:33:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:33:57","slug":"weekend-open-thread-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65766","title":{"rendered":"Weekend open thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/proof.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/03\/01\/photo-of-the-day-best-of-february-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160301-best-of-pod-04-444x333.jpg\" alt=\"160301-best-of-pod-04\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160301-best-of-pod-04-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160301-best-of-pod-04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160301-best-of-pod-04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160301-best-of-pod-04-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160301-best-of-pod-04.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEagle Hunter<br \/>\nPhotograph by Steve Morrison, National Geographic Your Shot<br \/>\nLaunch Gallery<\/p>\n<p>    While in western Mongolia in the summer of 2014, Your Shot member Steve Morrison captured this photo of a nomadic herder who hunts using a trained golden eagle, a centuries-old Kazakh practice. The eagles are extremely quick and can dive upon prey at speeds of more than 150 miles an hour. \u201cI had the opportunity to spend four days camped beside the ger (yurt) belonging to Shohan and his family,\u201d Morrison writes. \u201cOn this day, we had followed Shohan deep into the valley that extends west beyond his summer pastures, above upper Dayan Nuur near the Chinese border.\u201d<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your open thread &#8211; I&#8217;m still supervising the contractor (meaning; I&#8217;m getting in his way).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagle Hunter Photograph by Steve Morrison, National Geographic Your Shot Launch Gallery While in western Mongolia &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend open thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65766\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend open thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}