{"id":4205,"date":"2016-10-24T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2016-10-24T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T12:30:42","slug":"duck-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/duck-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Floating<\/a>

Floating duck blind<\/p><\/div>\n

I have never lived near a duck hunting venue, so I was a bit startled earlier this month when I woke to sounds of gunshots nearby.\u00a0 Apparently Lake Champlain is a good place to bag some ducks on their way south. Ducks: take note.<\/p>\n

I was also amused and amazed at the effort that duck hunters expend to fool the fowl.\u00a0 Some construct elaborate blinds near the shore.\u00a0 Others just camouflage their fishing boats.\u00a0 Some add so much greenery that their boats look like floating islands.\u00a0 Add a few flowers and they would be ready for the Rose Parade.<\/p>\n

I suppose that I should have grabbed the opportunity to experience duck hunting at its finest.\u00a0 I didn’t.\u00a0 But I will add it to my bucket list.<\/p>\n

At the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have never lived near a duck hunting venue, so I was a bit startled earlier this month when I woke to sounds of gunshots nearby.\u00a0 Apparently Lake Champlain is a good place to bag some ducks on their way south. Ducks: take note. I was also amused and amazed at the effort that duck … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-vt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-15P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}