{"id":3166,"date":"2024-01-02T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2024-01-02T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:21:14","slug":"getting-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2024\/01\/02\/getting-back-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back to Normal"},"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\/174248527\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With all the hustle and bustle now in the rear view mirror it\u2019s time to settle down and get back to normal.<br \/>\nNew Year\u2019s Day 2024 and it only seemed fitting to see what Mother Nature as to provide to the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Prowling the normal back roads was somewhat of a disappointment with not a Snowy to be found\u2026the thought of calling it a day crossed my mind.<br \/>\nRather than doing that perhaps expanding the search would be productive\u2026going with the gut feeling I plot out a new route.<\/p>\n<p>Turned out to be the right course of action with the First Snowy of 2024 spotted\u2026even though this pole perched owl wasn\u2019t cooperative I did manage to find two of the five willing to smile for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>The last of the day being unique in its own way even though it was perched on a post.<br \/>\nX\u2026marks the spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the hustle and bustle now in the rear view mirror it\u2019s time to settle down and get back to normal. New Year\u2019s Day 2024 and it only seemed fitting to see what Mother Nature as to provide to the start of the year. Prowling the normal back roads was somewhat of a disappointment [&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-3166","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\/3166"}],"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=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}