{"id":3003,"date":"2024-11-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2025-03-02T22:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:30:22","slug":"goose-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/13\/goose-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Goose Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our neighborhood is full of <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/17\/crossings\/\">crossings<\/a>. It is also full of <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/10\/on-frozen-pond\/\">Canada geese<\/a>. So you can imagine what I expected to see at our new Goose Crossing sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no. The crossing was for a white farm goose. (And her duck friend.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1109\" data-id=\"3005\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GooseCrossing.jpg\" alt=\"Goose Crossing Sign\" class=\"wp-image-3005\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"975\" data-id=\"3006\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WhiteGoose.jpg\" alt=\"White Goose and White Duck\" class=\"wp-image-3006\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They crossed the road exactly where they should, at the Goose Crossing sign, and waddled right into the pond beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was really kind of adorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighborhood is full of crossings. It is also full of Canada geese. So you can imagine what I expected to see at our new Goose Crossing sign. But no. The crossing was for a white farm goose. (And her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/13\/goose-crossing\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[32,12,31,26],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-birds","tag-neighborhood","tag-pond-life","tag-walkabout-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}