{"id":46,"date":"2011-07-14T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-14T21:49:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:49:27","slug":"blue-jay-in-sponge-bed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/blue-jay-in-sponge-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jay in sponge bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" src=\"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images\/stories\/wildlife\/bluejay1.jpg\" alt=\"Bluejay\" height=\"170\" style=\"float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" \/>This little fledgling blue jay was admitted with a badly splayed leg and was unable to walk without &#8220;paddling&#8221; his wings along the ground.&nbsp; The vet made a sponge-rubber and cardboard splint that the bird&#8217;s legs were &#8220;taped&#8221; into. He remained in the splint for 6 days and the splayed leg improved dramatically.&nbsp; Within two days after the splint was removed , he was walking normally.&nbsp; Although the leg was never quite perfectly aligned it functioned well enough for him to be released.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images\/stories\/wildlife\/bluejay2.jpg\" alt=\"Bluejay\" height=\"177\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" \/>By Connie Sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" src=\"images\/stories\/wildlife\/bluejay1.jpg\" alt=\"Bluejay\" height=\"170\" style=\"float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" \/>This little fledgling blue jay was admitted with a badly splayed leg and was unable to walk without &#8220;paddling&#8221; his wings along the ground.&nbsp; The vet made a sponge-rubber and cardboard splint that the bird&#8217;s legs were &#8220;taped&#8221; into. He remained in the splint for 6 days and the splayed leg improved dramatically.&nbsp; Within two days after the splint was removed , he was walking normally.&nbsp; Although the leg was never quite perfectly aligned it functioned well enough for him to be released.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" src=\"images\/stories\/wildlife\/bluejay2.jpg\" alt=\"Bluejay\" height=\"177\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" \/>By Connie Sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlife.wordpresswarriors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}