{"id":6185,"date":"2012-08-18T20:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T03:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2012-08-19T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T16:07:41","slug":"buck-in-velvet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6185","title":{"rendered":"Buck in velvet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\">Within meters of where I saw the white-tailed deer with\u00a0<a title=\"Antler buds\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5114\">antler buds<\/a> early in May, I saw possibly-the-same buck this morning. It is now summer, so its antlers have grown but they are still covered with the hairy skin known as velvet. The velvet will be shed early in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Posing for a portrait<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6193\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/whitetailedbuck1208183s4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Within meters of where I saw the white-tailed deer with\u00a0antler buds early in May, I saw possibly-the-same buck this morning. It is now summer, so its antlers have grown but they are still covered with the hairy skin known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-6185","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\/6185","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=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}