{"id":2777,"date":"2022-05-04T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2022-05-04T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:16:07","slug":"slowing-down-the-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/slowing-down-the-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowing Down the Pace"},"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\/172576411\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trip to a city pond\u2026<br \/>\nI recently had agreed to take a visitor from Sweden on a road trip out-n-about after his business meetings wrapped up.<br \/>\nHe had two simple requests that he hoped I would be able to provide.<br \/>\nWood Ducks and White Pelicans\u2026.well that was easy even with all the road closers and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t get over the colors of the Wood Ducks and just how large Pelicans really are.<br \/>\nHe was pleased and excited to get back home and go through his photos\u2026even though I had hoped for more action and birds.<br \/>\nA bonus in his mind was seeing and photographing Peregrines\u2026only because I just happen to know some places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trip to a city pond\u2026 I recently had agreed to take a visitor from Sweden on a road trip out-n-about after his business meetings wrapped up. He had two simple requests that he hoped I would be able to provide. Wood Ducks and White Pelicans\u2026.well that was easy even with all the road closers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,140],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-birds","category-waterfowl-waterbirds","tag-wood-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777"}],"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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}