{"id":19248,"date":"2016-12-25T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19248"},"modified":"2016-12-25T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T20:11:21","slug":"santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19248","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>When out on the roof there arose such a clatter,<br \/>\n I sprang from my bed\u00a0to see what was the matter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just as the poem says, early\u00a0this Christmas morning I really did hear a clatter on my roof and I sprang from my chair to see what was the matter.<\/p>\n<p>There he was on my chimney, replete with a white-trimmed red cap. I&#8217;m not making this up &#8212; I took a picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The truth is out: Santa Claus is a Pileated Woodpecker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19249\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pileatedwoodpecker161225s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When out on the roof there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed\u00a0to see what was the matter. Just as the poem says, early\u00a0this Christmas morning I really did hear a clatter on my roof and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19248\">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":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248","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=19248"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19257,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions\/19257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}