{"id":5209,"date":"2026-11-05T06:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5209"},"modified":"2026-11-05T06:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:15:01","slug":"saddle-billed-stork-wading-in-shallow-water-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5209","title":{"rendered":"Saddle billed stork wading in shallow water in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/saddle-billed-stork-wading-in-shallow-water-in-ethiopia.jpg?resize=540%2C699&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A large black and white stork with a red, black and yellow bill standing on long legs in shallow water\" class=\"wp-image-5208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/saddle-billed-stork-wading-in-shallow-water-in-ethiopia.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/saddle-billed-stork-wading-in-shallow-water-in-ethiopia.jpg?resize=250%2C324&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption>A saddle billed stork wades through shallow water in Ethiopia, its red, black and yellow bill held low. The poster shared it in October 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A saddle billed stork wades through shallow water in Ethiopia, its red, black and yellow bill held low. The poster shared it in October 2026.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MelsBracelets\/status\/2110746526838362367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melodee L. St. James (@MelsBracelets) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A saddle billed stork wades through shallow water in Ethiopia, its red, black and yellow bill held low. The poster shared it in October 2026. A saddle billed stork wades through shallow water in Ethiopia, its red, black and yellow bill held low. The poster shared it in October 2026. Photo: Melodee L. St. James\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5208,"comment_status":"closed","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,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[875,108,2839,2840,2602],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild-life","tag-birds","tag-ethiopia","tag-saddle-billed-stork","tag-storks","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/saddle-billed-stork-wading-in-shallow-water-in-ethiopia.jpg?fit=540%2C699&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}