{"id":11891,"date":"2016-03-28T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2016-03-28T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:42:15","slug":"duck-skills-or-trail-weirdness-you-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=11891","title":{"rendered":"Duck skills or trail weirdness&#8230;you pick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have finally been getting out into nature again and with the snow going away, there is finally a bunch of wildlife to see when I&#8217;m out on the bike. And yesterday, I saw a really cool thing that I was going denote &#8220;trail weirdness&#8221; but &#8220;duck skills&#8221; fit too&#8230;so you decide.<br \/>\nWhile I was on the bike going through a little cut that leads to a bridge that crosses a creek, I noticed a duck coming from behind me over my left shoulder at about 30 feet or so in the air&#8230;.once it passed me, it did a 6 g 180 turn with it&#8217;s wings completely vertical so I could see the tops of them along with it&#8217;s back&#8230;when it reached the creek, it slammed on the brakes and stalled, folded it&#8217;s wings and fell 20 feet straight down into the creek that is no wider than 3 feet where it landed&#8230;.one of the coolest bits of flying I&#8217;ve seen in a while&#8230;made me laugh like crazy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have finally been getting out into nature again and with the snow going away, there is finally a bunch of wildlife to see when I&#8217;m out on the bike. And yesterday, I saw a really cool thing that I was going denote &#8220;trail weirdness&#8221; but &#8220;duck skills&#8221; fit too&#8230;so you decide. While I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=11891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duck skills or trail weirdness&#8230;you pick&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-11891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11892,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11891\/revisions\/11892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}