{"id":17802,"date":"2016-07-01T07:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17802"},"modified":"2016-07-01T07:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:30:54","slug":"deer-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17802","title":{"rendered":"Deer serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The long weekend is a time to retreat from life&#8217;s exigencies. So it was that a young buck with velvet antlers arrived in its quest for wholesome serenity.<\/p>\n<p>A White-tailed Deer looks for a good setting for its contemplative retreat.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17805\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/whitetaileddeer160629es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It scans the neighbourhood with the objective of avoiding the boisterous crowd.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17805\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/whitetaileddeer160629bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It starts its retreat with some fresh salad.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17804\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/whitetaileddeer160629cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sated, it begins yoga. This may be the cervid version of the Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17806\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/whitetaileddeer160629as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yoga is followed by meditation in the grass. Life&#8217;s exigencies melt.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17803\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/whitetaileddeer160629ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The long weekend is a time to retreat from life&#8217;s exigencies. So it was that a young buck with velvet antlers arrived in its quest for wholesome serenity. A White-tailed Deer looks for a good setting for its contemplative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17802\">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-17802","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\/17802","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=17802"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17839,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802\/revisions\/17839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}