{"id":13644,"date":"2015-05-13T07:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13644"},"modified":"2015-05-13T07:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:40:37","slug":"mallard-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13644","title":{"rendered":"Mallard chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A month and a half ago, Miss Mallard put on a show for her intended. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13120\">pole dance<\/a> had the desired result.<\/p>\n<p>From a distance, the specks were tiny, dark and moving. From closer, the specks became seven mallard chicks.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13645\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mallard150512cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mommy waited and the chicks caught up.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13647\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mallard150512as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And they feasted together.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13646\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mallard150512bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A month and a half ago, Miss Mallard put on a show for her intended. Her pole dance had the desired result. From a distance, the specks were tiny, dark and moving. From closer, the specks became seven mallard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13644\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644","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=13644"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13655,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions\/13655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}