{"id":1532,"date":"2008-04-22T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2012-07-02T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T03:47:47","slug":"watch-as-the-photog-stalks-his-prey-faux-aussie-accent-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Watch as the photog stalks his prey (faux Aussie accent optional)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/thresher_below_30553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>There I lay, all stealthy in the grass, waiting for an opportunity to snare the great beast. I hunkered down amidst the prairie grass, armed only with my trusty camera, my 10mm ultra-wide lens, and a keen jungle sense. Opportunity was ready to knock; the sun was rising behind me&#8230;all I needed to do was wait.<\/p>\n<p>Almost in an instant, the sun arrived in just the right spot&#8230;a sort of aesthetic apogee, if you will. I leaped into action; my shutter finger had not grown weary from the wait. In a fraction of a second I had captured the behemoth, seemingly unaware as it basked in the fleeting morning sun. Ah, sweet success.<\/p>\n<p>My conquest secure, I retreated to my nice warm truck and cold Mountain Dew. It was time to move on; there was still a precious window of morning sun available, and who knows what adventure might wait just down the road? I was determined to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There I lay, all stealthy in the grass, waiting for an opportunity to snare the great beast. I hunkered down amidst the prairie grass, armed only with my trusty camera, my 10mm ultra-wide lens, and a keen jungle sense. Opportunity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1532\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}