{"id":12221,"date":"2014-12-16T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12221"},"modified":"2014-12-16T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:58:24","slug":"roadside-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12221","title":{"rendered":"Roadside sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two perquisites of rural living are\u00a0the\u00a0occasional presence of megafauna alongside a road, and the ease with which one can pull over to watch them. So it was that I was able to offer my compliments to\u00a0some Bighorn Sheep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the sheep were highly visible, such as this ram striking a classic pose on a cliff.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12228\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bighornedsheep141215es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they were much less obvious, such as this one peeking through the grass.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12227\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bighornedsheep141215fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0ewe passes another on a cliff face.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12229\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bighornedsheep141215ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a juvenile ram bounds up the slope.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12230\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bighornedsheep141215cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All in all, each seemed to enjoy an unhurried life.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12231\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bighornedsheep141215as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two perquisites of rural living are\u00a0the\u00a0occasional presence of megafauna alongside a road, and the ease with which one can pull over to watch them. So it was that I was able to offer my compliments to\u00a0some Bighorn Sheep.\u00a0 Sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12221"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12238,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12221\/revisions\/12238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}