{"id":75455,"date":"2014-06-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=0c193a4082c3800125b928bdb72689ce"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:49","slug":"reflected-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/reflected-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflected Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"

This laughing gull was bobbing up and down on swells in the East River near the Brooklyn shore. The moving surface of the water distorted and redrew its reflection.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSilence. How long it lasted, I couldn’t tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn’t fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.\u201d Haruki Murakami, from Dance Dance Dance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees.\u201d Dee Remy, from There Was Once a Boy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.\u201d Tarjei Vessas, from The Boat in the Evening.<\/p>\n

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“Look in the mirror and one thing’s sure; what we see is not who we are.” Richard Bach.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMirrors,’ she said, ‘are never to be trusted.\u201dNeil Gaiman, from Coraline.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMirrors should think longer before they reflect.\u201d Jean Cocteau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This laughing gull was bobbing up and down on swells in the East River near the Brooklyn shore. The moving surface of the water distorted and redrew its reflection. \u201cSilence. How long it lasted, I couldn’t tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn’t fixed. It wavered, stretched, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2150969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2450,871],"class_list":["post-75455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-laughing-gull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}