{"id":22442,"date":"2015-01-15T23:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2015-01-16T00:02:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T05:02:16","slug":"geese-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/geese-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Geese galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back I was visiting my old home town of Cardiff. During a\u00a0 stroll to Roath Park Lake, I was rewarded by the sight of a couple of Canada geese bobbing cheerfully in the water. They were imported from Canada, a local informed me. Obviously no one had bothered to tell the keepers of the lake that Canada geese reproduce &#8211; quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are in Oakville:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22448\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0331.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0331\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0331.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0331-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0331-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0331-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0334-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22450\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0334-2.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0334-2\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0334-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0334-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0334-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC0334-2-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back I was visiting my old home town of Cardiff. During a\u00a0 stroll to Roath Park Lake, I was rewarded by the sight of a couple of Canada geese bobbing cheerfully in the water. They were imported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/geese-galore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[545,2222],"class_list":["post-22442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-canada-geese","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}