{"id":11229,"date":"2015-10-10T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2015-10-10T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:46:15","slug":"photo-of-the-day-a-duck-at-watsons-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/photo-of-the-day-a-duck-at-watsons-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: A duck at Watson&#8217;s Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> wandered out to one of my favourite places, Watson&#8217;s Mill in Manotick, to check out the progress of the fall colours. I was taking pictures of the reflections of the leaves in the the water when this photogenic duck plunked herself on a rock about 15 feet in from of me and sat happily preening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/21893102638\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Duck at Watson&#x27;s Mill\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5625\/21893102638_fc6cd4c110_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Duck at Watson&#x27;s Mill\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took a few photos, and crept a little closer, and she still didn&#8217;t seem to mind me being there.  In fact, I could almost hear her say, &#8220;I&#8217;m ready for my close-up, Miss DaniGirl!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just about a perfect autumn-in-Canada sort of scene, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered out to one of my favourite places, Watson&#8217;s Mill in Manotick, to check out the progress of the fall colours. I was taking pictures of the reflections of the leaves in the the water when this photogenic duck plunked herself on a rock about 15 feet in from of me and sat happily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/photo-of-the-day-a-duck-at-watsons-mill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: A duck at Watson&#8217;s Mill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11231,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}