{"id":19231,"date":"2019-11-20T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19231"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:06:26","slug":"i-think-i-saw-an-elk-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19231","title":{"rendered":"I think I saw an elk yesterday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I almost forgot to talk about something I saw on the trail yesterday&#8230;after doing the river part of the trail and getting ready to make the turn into the swamp, I saw what I first thought was a deer crossing the trail about 30 yards in front of me&#8230;but it was not the color of the normal white tail deer that I see every day&#8230;it was almost a dark brown and had a set of antlers that looked like an elks&#8230;but it was only a little bigger than a deer so then I started to wonder what that would be&#8230;.and the only thing I thought of was a reindeer but there are no reindeer here in West Michigan&#8230;at least they are not indigenous to this area&#8230;but, I did remember that there were some reindeer that escaped from a game farm in the area a few years back and I wonder if they are still at large? Pretty weird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I almost forgot to talk about something I saw on the trail yesterday&#8230;after doing the river part of the trail and getting ready to make the turn into the swamp, I saw what I first thought was a deer crossing the trail about 30 yards in front of me&#8230;but it was not the color of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I think I saw an elk yesterday&#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-19231","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\/19231","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=19231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19233,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19231\/revisions\/19233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}