{"id":1521,"date":"2024-08-05T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manzodakota.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:05:27","slug":"sitting-duck-is-also-a-landing-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/sitting-duck-is-also-a-landing-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting duck is also a landing pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My girlfriend was in Miami and sent me this picture &#8230; when have you ever seen one bird (or duck, or goose) use another as a landing pad in the water? The term &#8220;sitting duck&#8221; can be applied to this passive goose who is providing a dry landing for his or her friend. Or maybe they&#8217;re not friends?  The goose is pretty calm for this surprise landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My girlfriend was in Miami and sent me this picture &#8230; when have you ever seen one bird (or duck, or goose) use another as a landing pad in the water? The term &#8220;sitting duck&#8221; can be applied to this passive goose who is providing a dry landing for his or her friend. Or maybe &#8230; <a title=\"Sitting duck is also a landing pad\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/sitting-duck-is-also-a-landing-pad\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sitting duck is also a landing pad\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[337,430,486,683],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-goose","tag-landing-pad","tag-miami","tag-sitting-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}