{"id":16231,"date":"2016-02-01T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16231"},"modified":"2016-02-01T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T21:05:16","slug":"bcmot-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16231","title":{"rendered":"BCMoT advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Highway signs are normally designed to promote uniform adherence, not delight. However, there is one used by the BC Ministry of Transportation that I find really appealing. Sometimes one of the BCMoT overhead electronic signs advises,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">WATCH FOR WILDLIFE\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, I do. \u00a0Certainly this is done for safety, as it was this morning when I slowed to avoid four white-tailed deer. However, heeding this recommendation has its own rewards. Such was the case one morning when a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16193\">coyote<\/a> wandered along the berm, and later that\u00a0same day when a small herd of bighorn sheep fed and watched traffic only metres from the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16232\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bighornsheep160126as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Highway signs are normally designed to promote uniform adherence, not delight. However, there is one used by the BC Ministry of Transportation that I find really appealing. Sometimes one of the BCMoT overhead electronic signs advises, WATCH FOR WILDLIFE\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16231\">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-16231","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\/16231","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=16231"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16245,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions\/16245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}