{"id":28202,"date":"2020-02-11T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28202"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:40:26","slug":"whinging-gander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28202","title":{"rendered":"Whinging gander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The whinging gander was frustrated. He nagged his mate for access, but she was having none of it: &#8220;It is not even spring yet, and I am just not in the mood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh come on, you know you are ready.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28208\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goose200210as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During five minutes of harassment, she talked back to him only once.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28207\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goose200210bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Normally she just looked away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28205\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goose200210ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He chased her across the beach.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28204\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goose200210es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And through the water. One could imagine her muttering, &#8220;Do other species have to put up with this?&#8221; One could also imagine him muttering, &#8220;Do other species have to put up with this?&#8221; <br \/>\nOh well, he just has to wait another month.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28203\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goose200210fs.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 whinging gander was frustrated. He nagged his mate for access, but she was having none of it: &#8220;It is not even spring yet, and I am just not in the mood.&#8221; &#8220;Oh come on, you know you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28202\">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-28202","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\/28202","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=28202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28214,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28202\/revisions\/28214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}