{"id":1969,"date":"2012-11-15T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/?page_id=1969"},"modified":"2013-04-21T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T19:40:08","slug":"meredith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/falconry\/history\/early-falconers\/meredith","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Luff Meredith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain (and later Colonel) Russell Luff Meredith (1892-1965) is considered the father of American Falconry. Interviewed by <em>The New Yorker<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Luff-Meredith-1938.pdf\" target=\"blank\">April 1938<\/a>), Luff spoke about his 4 Peregrines and 1 Gyrfalcon. A gem of his interview was the axiom he shared, &#8220;a hawk can be trained in six weeks, but it takes three years to make a falconer.&#8221; The article states that Luff had been at the sport for the more than 30 years, placing his first years of falconry in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n<p>NAFA gives a <a href=\"http:\/\/n-a-f-a.com\/General_History.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Brief History of Falconry in North America<\/a> and includes Luff as most notable among the early falconers and organizers of local and national clubs (before and after World War II). The IAF gives a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaf.org\/HistoryFalconry.html\" target=\"_blank\">5,000+ year history of falconry<\/a>, and includes Luff in helping establish falconry in America.<\/p>\n<p>Luff moved to Oregon in the 1950s, joining other national figures of falconry who lived in our state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain (and later Colonel) Russell Luff Meredith (1892-1965) is considered the father of American Falconry. Interviewed by The New Yorker (April 1938), Luff spoke about his 4 Peregrines and 1 Gyrfalcon. A gem of his interview was the axiom he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/falconry\/history\/early-falconers\/meredith\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1058,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1969","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1969\/revisions\/1975"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonfalconers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}