{"id":5293,"date":"2016-10-07T00:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T05:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2016-10-07T00:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T05:26:35","slug":"id-say-it-was-a-couple-of-bucks-but-its-actually-a-load-of-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5293","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d say it was a couple of bucks but it&#8217;s actually a load of bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/10\/elk_41665.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/10\/elk_41665-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"elk_41665\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/10\/elk_41665.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/10\/elk_41665-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/10\/elk_41665-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m no hunter, so I had to use Google to verify that a male elk is a bull and not a buck.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t ask me why.\u00a0 All I know is that these guys and a few of their friends hung out near me for a little while after I arrived at the part of Theodore Roosevelt National Park where they were grazing at sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/08\/badlands_sunrise_41752-7_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/08\/badlands_sunrise_41752-7_hdr-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"badlands_sunrise_41752-7_hdr\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/08\/badlands_sunrise_41752-7_hdr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/08\/badlands_sunrise_41752-7_hdr-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2016\/08\/badlands_sunrise_41752-7_hdr-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m glad they sauntered off when they did, because if they hadn&#8217;t I&#8217;d have missed this shot&#8230;my favorite of the summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no hunter, so I had to use Google to verify that a male elk is a bull and not a buck.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t ask me why.\u00a0 All I know is that these guys and a few of their friends hung &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunrise","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","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=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}