{"id":35699,"date":"2026-07-28T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35699"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:22:03","slug":"three-otters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35699","title":{"rendered":"Three otters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three otters (mother and two pups?) turned up on a nearby dock and spent about a half-hour preening, scratching, pooping, and resting. Only rarely could one see all three faces at once.<\/p>\n<p>They then went on their way up the lake.<\/p>\n<p>A small family of three otters visited.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35700\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/otter260728as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Three otters (mother and two pups?) turned up on a nearby dock and spent about a half-hour preening, scratching, pooping, and resting. Only rarely could one see all three faces at once. They then went on their way up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35699\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35699","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\/35699","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=35699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35702,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions\/35702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}