{"id":8144,"date":"2026-09-27T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:49:50","slug":"spruce-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8144","title":{"rendered":"Spruce grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/WA\/Enchantmant\/DSC_6143_grause.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aka Canachites canadensis. I\u2019ve seen plenty of girls, but I\u2019d never come across boys in war paint before. And then out stepped this handsome fellow\u2014even though it was autumn and hardly the season for boys to be sporting that kind of look.<br \/>\nThe ISO was cranked up outrageously, since the action was taking place in a pitch-black spruce forest (the birds were living up to their English name).<br \/>\nLooking so handsome, he trudged along behind the lady.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/WA\/Enchantmant\/DSC_6133_grouse.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"749\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yaroslava.polosina\/posts\/pfbid021XSS36GtQARFag8ti7DUb5mTJwHZkcv5aAwaN3uAfx6KqqDm3P24G1kW7hzQAHfhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss on FB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/WA\/Enchantmant\/DSC_6143_grause.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aka Canachites canadensis. I\u2019ve seen plenty of girls, but I\u2019d never come across boys in war paint before. And then out stepped this handsome fellow\u2014even though it was autumn and hardly the season for boys to be sporting that kind of look. The ISO was cranked <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8144\">Spruce grouse<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,393],"tags":[594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8146,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}