{"id":116,"date":"2015-01-01T19:34:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/?p=116"},"modified":"2015-01-13T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:11:46","slug":"let-the-new-year-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Let the New Year Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 2015 here and a Raptor exhibit beginning in just a few months, Sax-Zim Bog seemed like the best place to start the new year. It didn&#8217;t take more than a few passes along Admiral Road until a Great Grey Owl was spotted in the trees. Not sure which car was the first to stop, but I worked my way up to the few folks that were setting up their gear. Although this beauty was on the sunlit side of the road, it really was just a touch too low to be basking in its full glory. The entire encounter lasted less than five minutes before the owl flew deep into the woods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GGO-Admiral_IMG_0058-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GGO-Admiral_IMG_0058-copy.jpg\" alt=\"GGO-Admiral_IMG_0058-copy\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GGO-Admiral_IMG_0058-copy.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GGO-Admiral_IMG_0058-copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Driving farther down the road, the sun was just beginning to set. What a beautiful ending to the first day of a new year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/First-Sunset_IMG_2329-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/First-Sunset_IMG_2329-copy.jpg\" alt=\"First-Sunset_IMG_2329-copy\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/First-Sunset_IMG_2329-copy.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/First-Sunset_IMG_2329-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">With 2015 here and a Raptor exhibit beginning in just a few months, Sax-Zim Bog seemed like the best place to start the new year. It didn&#8217;t take more than a few passes along Admiral Road until a Great Grey Owl was spotted in the trees. Not sure which car was the first to stop, but I worked my way&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/?p=116\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-bog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}