{"id":14068,"date":"2025-03-28T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:36:49","slug":"swift-by-name-swift-by-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/swift-by-name-swift-by-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift by name, swift by nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The word &#8216;swift&#8217;, as an adjective, is a synonym of &#8216;fast&#8217;. But &#8216;swift&#8217; is also a noun. A swift is a bird which I begin looking for from my window here in Madrid at this time of year. It&#8217;s still a bit early to be honest, but as a symbol of the coming summer the first swift of the year is a welcome sight. The natural world is an important part of our <strong>&#8216;Hello April&#8217;<\/strong> fact and activity sheet. <strong>Click on the swifts in flight<\/strong> (they can fly continuously for 10 months!) below to access it and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W8NuL5mEpjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> for a really nice short video about swifts and how they coexist with communities in the UK. (Ed Taylor)<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/2024-25-month-by-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14070 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/swifts.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8216;swift&#8217;, as an adjective, is a synonym of &#8216;fast&#8217;. But &#8216;swift&#8217; is also a noun. A swift is a bird which I begin&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":14070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publica",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14077,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions\/14077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}