{"id":3160,"date":"2023-12-19T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2023-12-19T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:17:26","slug":"beacon-on-a-pole-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/12\/19\/beacon-on-a-pole-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon on a Pole"},"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\/174217587\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an unusual start to the Winter. With mild temps and the lack of snow but I\u2019ve been kicking down the barn door\u2026to get out and search for the Great White Owls from the North.<br \/>\nFinally a day when the weather cooperated and I refused to look at the Job Jar\u2026this found me out roaming the Back Country Roads.<\/p>\n<p>Always a great feeling when you spot that First Beacon on a Pole. Nature being Nature\u2026nothing is a given as the Owl could very well take flight well before I even get close.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Owl simply felt sorry for me\u2026staying perch for a short period before he decided enough was enough and flew off.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter was short lived\u2026but nice still nice to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an unusual start to the Winter. With mild temps and the lack of snow but I\u2019ve been kicking down the barn door\u2026to get out and search for the Great White Owls from the North. Finally a day when the weather cooperated and I refused to look at the Job Jar\u2026this found me out [&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":[50],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160"}],"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=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}