{"id":24714,"date":"2018-09-25T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24714"},"modified":"2018-09-25T19:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T02:53:42","slug":"mountain-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24714","title":{"rendered":"Mountain goat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When compared to the satisfying closeups of local wildlife posted of late, today&#8217;s image of a mountain goat is, er&#8230;, only so-so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alas, mountain goats live in a world that rarely intersects my own: They habit the steep faces of rocky cliffs. Not often am I near their world, and when there, I rarely see one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A mountain goat briefly looked down from the top of a cliff over 300 metres above me. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24715\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mountaingoat180921as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When compared to the satisfying closeups of local wildlife posted of late, today&#8217;s image of a mountain goat is, er&#8230;, only so-so.\u00a0 Alas, mountain goats live in a world that rarely intersects my own: They habit the steep faces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24714\">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-24714","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\/24714","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=24714"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24724,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714\/revisions\/24724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}