{"id":214917,"date":"2026-04-01T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:30:24","slug":"i-held-a-wild-owl-in-florida-raptor-rescue-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214917\/","title":{"rendered":"I Held a Wild Owl in Florida (Raptor Rescue Up Close)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Wildlife photography usually involves me sitting in a swamp waiting to be disrespected by nature.<br \/>\nSo today I upgraded and visited ARC (Avian Reconditioning Center) in Apopka, Florida\u2014a place that rehabilitates injured owls, hawks, and falcons. I got closer to raptors than you normally should, learned how rehab actually works, and left with a healthy respect for anything with talons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Wildlife photography usually involves me sitting in a swamp waiting to be disrespected by nature. So today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1684,98049,1686,55738,28,30,29,98048,2158,29687,14353],"class_list":["post-214917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-animals","tag-avian-reconditioning-center","tag-birds","tag-everyday-wild","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hawk","tag-insider","tag-joey-manna","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}