{"id":962,"date":"2014-03-12T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=962"},"modified":"2014-03-12T11:55:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T16:55:24","slug":"spring-is-creeping-in-by-fits-and-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/spring-is-creeping-in-by-fits-and-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is creeping in by fits and starts!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0662.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-965\" alt=\"Rich with Chickadee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0662-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0662-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0662-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0662-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are out doing our &#8220;last time&#8221; winter activities&#8230; from ice fishing (river ice was still 20-30&#8243; deep out of Stoddard), to snowshoeing and x-country skiing. Most precious is still hand-feeding the birds on Goose Island!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen a few beautiful migrating hooded mergansers and Canada geese, but not Sandhill Cranes or Pelicans yet. Those of you down river can keep us posted!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We are out doing our &#8220;last time&#8221; winter activities&#8230; from ice fishing (river ice was still 20-30&#8243; deep out of Stoddard), to snowshoeing and x-country skiing. Most precious is still hand-feeding the birds on Goose Island! We&#8217;ve seen a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/spring-is-creeping-in-by-fits-and-starts\/\">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":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}