{"id":9552,"date":"2014-01-19T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2014-01-19T07:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T15:31:16","slug":"grouse-crosses-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9552","title":{"rendered":"Grouse crosses road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well actually, the Ruffed Grouse <em>did not<\/em> manage to cross the road.<\/p>\n<p>The grouse tried repeatedly, but it walked so slowly that during each attempt another vehicle would come along, and the grouse was forced to retreat. Finally, a big truck came by. With this, the grouse gave up and flew back over the snow bank from which it had started.<\/p>\n<p>The odd thing about this is that as vehicles were infrequent, there had always been ample time for the grouse to have merely flown across the road.<\/p>\n<p>Why try to walk?\u00a0Who can fathom the mind of a grouse?<\/p>\n<p>A Ruffed Grouse repeatedly tried to walk across the highway. It finally gave up and flew back over the snow bank.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9553\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ruffedgrouse140115s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well actually, the Ruffed Grouse did not manage to cross the road. The grouse tried repeatedly, but it walked so slowly that during each attempt another vehicle would come along, and the grouse was forced to retreat. Finally, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9552\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9552","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\/9552","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=9552"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9579,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}