{"id":4889,"date":"2012-12-27T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:53:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:53:24","slug":"several-thousand-geese-a-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/12\/27\/several-thousand-geese-a-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Thousand Geese-a-Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a bird-themed Christmas, waffles, a game involving trains (a <a href=\"\/journal\/2012\/12\/23\/the-hoya\/\">recurring activity<\/a> this holiday season, apparently), and hiking in the mud with Aaron I took leave of Ma &#038; Pa&#8217;s house and returned to the road.  Today&#8217;s stop was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosumnes.org\/\">Cosumnes River Preserve<\/a>, home to (literally) tens of thousands of geese and numerous other feathered critters.  Having flocks of thousands of geese and the occasional sandhill crane passing overhead as the sun set was not a bad way to finish the day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7XYXbuTHMmk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"img-main\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Several thousand white-fronted geese take to the skies as the sun sets.  Turn up the volume for maximum enjoyment.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a bird-themed Christmas, waffles, a game involving trains (a recurring activity this holiday season, apparently), and hiking in the mud with Aaron I took leave of Ma &#038; Pa&#8217;s house and returned to the road. Today&#8217;s stop was at the Cosumnes River Preserve, home to (literally) tens of thousands of geese and numerous other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/12\/27\/several-thousand-geese-a-flying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Several Thousand Geese-a-Flying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,31,43],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-christmas","tag-man-trip","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}