{"id":21998,"date":"2018-05-04T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T03:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=21998"},"modified":"2018-05-04T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T03:02:42","slug":"just-because-part-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/05\/just-because-part-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ThaiCanadian.jpg\" alt=\"mother Canada goose Branta canadensis with chick peeking from under wing\" width=\"750\" height=\"1041\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21999\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This little tableau presented itself as The Girlfriend and I made a circuit of the pond this evening. The light was dropping rapidly so conditions weren&#8217;t ideal, but you can still make out the unfortunate and bizarre tumor that this Canada goose (<em>Branta canadensis<\/em>) is plagued with. I imagine that it&#8217;s not long for this world, because even if it survives this growth I doubt flight is possible with that right there. The tragedies of the animal kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there&#8217;s the faintest hint, but I don&#8217;t suppose you can tell any more than we could that there&#8217;s actually <em>four<\/em> of them under there. Curious, too, because the night is quite warm.<\/p>\n<p>And for that reason, there&#8217;s a slim chance that I&#8217;ll be back with more pics from the evening. I <em>want<\/em> to go out, but a kidney stone is suggesting otherwise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little tableau presented itself as The Girlfriend and I made a circuit of the pond this evening. The light was dropping rapidly so conditions weren&#8217;t ideal, but you can still make out the unfortunate and bizarre tumor that this Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is plagued with. I imagine that it&#8217;s not long for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[2796,2795,4376,4377,4378],"class_list":["post-21998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-branta-canadensis","tag-canada-goose","tag-chick","tag-sentry","tag-thats-what-i-call-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}