{"id":1350,"date":"2017-05-15T06:46:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2018-10-13T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:11:43","slug":"on-the-dancing-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/on-the-dancing-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Dancing Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/165467523\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each spring from the end of April to the middle of May (give or take) Sharp-tailed Grouse gather at a lek or dancing ground.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s here the males compete with other males by put on a courtship display for the females.<\/p>\n<p>With wings spread, tailed raise and the purple neck sacks enlarged they put on their best display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring from the end of April to the middle of May (give or take) Sharp-tailed Grouse gather at a lek or dancing ground. It&#8217;s here the males compete with other males by put on a courtship display for the females. With wings spread, tailed raise and the purple neck sacks enlarged they put on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-birds","tag-sharp-tailed-grouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}