{"id":60,"date":"2004-06-25T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T10:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2004-06-25T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T10:21:41","slug":"more_on_the_hi_ute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/06\/25\/more_on_the_hi_ute\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Hi Ute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s entry on the Hi Ute Ranch, I&#8217;ve been Googling around for some photographs or an official Web site or something. I had no luck on the Web site, but I did find a couple of pictures. For those who want to know what the heck I was talking about yesterday or those who want to relive some happy memories, I present the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slcity.com\/parkcity\/360\/hiute.html\">This site<\/a> features one of those groovy interactive photos that enable you to move around inside them using your mouse. It&#8217;s the next best thing to standing in the middle of the actual barnyard.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.utah.edu\/%7Ejoseph\/HiUte.html\">This site<\/a>, on the other hand, features an ordinary static shot of the ranch plus a brief remembrance in verse by the site&#8217;s owner, who lived on the ranch as a boy and isn&#8217;t too happy about the development that now surrounds it. I wonder how he feels about the conservation easement, whether he thinks it&#8217;s a good thing or too little, too late.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, for those who don&#8217;t know and may be wondering as you read the poem on the second Web site, a kildere (or, more properly, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enature.com\/fieldguide\/showSpeciesSH.asp?curGroupID=1&amp;shapeID=967&amp;curPageNum=9&amp;recnum=BD0188\">killdeer<\/a>) is a native Utah bird that nests on the ground in open fields. It has a distinctive call that consists of one high-noted whistle followed by a lower note. This call is what gives the bird its name, although it&#8217;s always sounded to me like the bird is saying &#8220;hee-haw,&#8221; not &#8220;kill-deer.&#8221; It sounds, actually, like a more benign version of Nelson from <i>The Simpsons<\/i>. I love the sound of kilderes, especially now when you don&#8217;t encounter it much. For the last couple of summers, I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to have a killdeer living in a small pasture behind my parents&#8217; barn, so I hear the call fairly often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s entry on the Hi Ute Ranch, I&#8217;ve been Googling around for some photographs or an official Web site or something. I had no luck on the Web site, but I did find a couple of pictures. For those who want to know what the heck I was talking about yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}