{"id":4298,"date":"2011-05-14T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2011-05-14T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T14:31:05","slug":"the-soaring-kite-hawks-of-piccadilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-soaring-kite-hawks-of-piccadilly\/","title":{"rendered":"The soaring kite hawks of Piccadilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kite-bird-piccadilly-london-01.jpg\" alt=\"The bird kite of Piccadilly\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soaring over the\u00a0fabulously\u00a0over-the-top\u00a0\u00a0baroque\u00a0roof-line of The Ritz by Green Park can be spotted this kite, which is rather convincingly\u00a0shaped like a hawk.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kite-bird-piccadilly-london-02.jpg\" alt=\"The bird kite of Piccadilly\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of two &#8216;bird kites&#8217; installed on the roof, the pigeon-scaring\u00a0movement appears quite natural &#8211; until you realise it&#8217;s stuck to a six metre flexible telescopic pole, of course!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kite-bird-piccadilly-london-03.jpg\" alt=\"The bird kite of Piccadilly\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can spot the bird if you stand by Green Park tube station and look towards Piccadilly Circus, above the Ritz hotel.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More London features<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring over the\u00a0fabulously\u00a0over-the-top\u00a0\u00a0baroque\u00a0roof-line of The Ritz by Green Park can be spotted this kite, which is rather convincingly\u00a0shaped like a hawk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[10,273],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-london","tag-piccadilly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kite-bird-piccadilly-london-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-17k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}