{"id":23809,"date":"2018-06-16T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23809"},"modified":"2018-06-16T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:53:06","slug":"caught-mid-gronk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23809","title":{"rendered":"Caught mid-gronk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Great Blue Heron is fairly visible &#8212; yet it is listed as locally vulnerable. It is almost always silent &#8212; yet it was photographed mid-gronk.<\/p>\n<p>In one&#8217;s imagination, the raspy\u00a0<em>gronk<\/em> of the heron is atavistic: the call of the pterodactyl.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Blue Heron <em>gronks<\/em> as it flies past.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23810\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/heron180615s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Great Blue Heron is fairly visible &#8212; yet it is listed as locally vulnerable. It is almost always silent &#8212; yet it was photographed mid-gronk. In one&#8217;s imagination, the raspy\u00a0gronk of the heron is atavistic: the call of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23809\">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-23809","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\/23809","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=23809"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23809\/revisions\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}