{"id":2176,"date":"2007-06-13T19:44:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T23:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2007-06-13T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T23:49:36","slug":"great-blue-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/06\/13\/great-blue-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/blue_heron.jpg' title='blue_heron.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/blue_heron.thumbnail.jpg' alt='blue_heron.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goose and I drove into Applewood today and spotted a Great Blue Heron. I&#8217;ve many standing shots of the bird, but I&#8217;ve been trying hard to get a full wing spread photo to show rakkity just how big these birds are. At my prompt, Goose jumped out of the truck and yelled really scary things at the bird so he&#8217;d take flight.  As Goose yelled,  I snapped the shot above, and to add context Goose spread his six foot wing span kneeling in about the same spot as the heron.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/heron_goose2.jpg' title='heron_goose2.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/heron_goose2.thumbnail.jpg' alt='heron_goose2.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goose and I drove into Applewood today and spotted a Great Blue Heron. I&#8217;ve many standing shots of the bird, but I&#8217;ve been trying hard to get a full wing spread photo to show rakkity just how big these birds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/06\/13\/great-blue-goose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}