{"id":1429,"date":"2008-01-17T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2012-05-08T23:45:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T04:45:42","slug":"pioneer-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/pioneer_owl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>It&#8217;s amazing what one might see when one looks up now and then. That&#8217;s especially true of walking through Pioneer Park at dusk. That&#8217;s when I spotted this owl&#8230;exposed once for the sky, once for the blast from my Speedlite flash. He didn&#8217;t seem too inconvenienced, waiting several minutes before taking flight. That gave me plenty of opportunity to decide whether I wanted to photograph his silhouette or illuminate him with the flash. I chose both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing what one might see when one looks up now and then. That&#8217;s especially true of walking through Pioneer Park at dusk. That&#8217;s when I spotted this owl&#8230;exposed once for the sky, once for the blast from my Speedlite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1429\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}