{"id":2248,"date":"2024-02-06T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2248-mallard-mayhem.html"},"modified":"2024-02-06T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:06:00","slug":"mallard-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2248-mallard-mayhem.html","title":{"rendered":"Mallard Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2914 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/36-_G2A9095-Enhanced-NR.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis guy engrossed in his own personal bathing antics attracted the interest of a young lady eager to see what all the fuss was about. But, when she ventured too close he was clearly not happy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nShe persisted a few moments but when he got aggressive she was out of there!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA short while later another young lady turned up and was met with a very different reception.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#anasplatyrhynchos #ducks #ireland #donerailepark #mallard #doneraile #waterfowl #birds #courtship<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy engrossed in his own personal bathing antics attracted the interest of a young lady eager to see what all the fuss was about. But, when she ventured too close he was clearly not happy. She persisted a few moments but when he got aggressive she was out of there! A short while later &#8230; <a title=\"Mallard Mayhem\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2248-mallard-mayhem.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mallard Mayhem\">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-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","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=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}