{"id":2241,"date":"2024-01-24T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2241-a-splash-of-mallard.html"},"modified":"2024-01-24T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:21:00","slug":"a-splash-of-mallard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2241-a-splash-of-mallard.html","title":{"rendered":"A Splash of Mallard"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2907 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/30-_G2A8976.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere are ducks a plenty everywhere; it\u2019s the perfect weather for them. For the most part I was ignoring them around me as having been used to being fed by visitors they can become quite annoying.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSuddenly a ray of warm light from the setting sun burst through the Irish winter sky bringing a splash of amazing colour to this lone mallard.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe light only lasted a moment, the duck, oblivious to his moment in the spotlight simply swam on.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#killarney #waterfowl #ducks #mallard #anasplatyrhynchos #reflections #ireland<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are ducks a plenty everywhere; it\u2019s the perfect weather for them. For the most part I was ignoring them around me as having been used to being fed by visitors they can become quite annoying. Suddenly a ray of warm light from the setting sun burst through the Irish winter sky bringing a splash &#8230; <a title=\"A Splash of Mallard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2241-a-splash-of-mallard.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Splash of Mallard\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}