{"id":10327,"date":"2021-08-24T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebackyardnaturalist.com\/wordpress\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2021-09-14T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T21:10:21","slug":"safe-to-resume-feeding-birds-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebackyardnaturalist.com\/wordpress\/safe-to-resume-feeding-birds-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Backyard Naturalist in The Washington Post: John Kelly Discusses End of Mystery Bird Illness and Resuming Feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the article by <em>The Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s John Kelly on resuming the feeding of wild birds now that summer&#8217;s mystery bird illness is over. 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