{"id":1955,"date":"2019-01-29T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2019-01-29T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:52:09","slug":"never-forgot-the-first-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/29\/never-forgot-the-first-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Forgot the First One"},"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\/148042342\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The saying goes&#8230;&#8221;You&#8217;ll Never Forget the First One&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Strange how the mind works&#8230;I have problems remembering names, dates and where I need to be so that&#8217;s why they invented the calendar to write things down.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to owls\/birds I have no problems remembering&#8230;I can still remember the exact location on Maple Creek Road on Jan 11th 2009 and my  First Encounter with a Great Gray.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on I was hooked and have now photographed many over the years.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s true&#8230;&#8221;You Never Forget Your First&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saying goes&#8230;&#8221;You&#8217;ll Never Forget the First One&#8221;. Strange how the mind works&#8230;I have problems remembering names, dates and where I need to be so that&#8217;s why they invented the calendar to write things down. But when it comes to owls\/birds I have no problems remembering&#8230;I can still remember the exact location on Maple Creek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-great-gray-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955"}],"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=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}