{"id":308,"date":"2021-05-19T08:06:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T15:16:08","slug":"promise-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/promise-kept\/","title":{"rendered":"Promise Kept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On my previous visit to Kopf Family Reservation, I noticed a lot of Mallards along Gable Creek.  So when I made the sales-pitch to my wife to join me on this birding trip, I told her &#8220;You should come, there will be lots of ducklings, I promise!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s a lot to live up too.  Fortunately the Mallards came through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings-1568x1045.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMGP9243-2021-05-16-Kopf-Family-Reservation-ducklings.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mallard Female with Ducklings \/ Kopf Family Reservation \/ 2021-05-16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my previous visit to Kopf Family Reservation, I noticed a lot of Mallards along Gable Creek. So when I made the sales-pitch to my wife to join me on this birding trip, I told her &#8220;You should come, there will be lots of ducklings, I promise!&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s a lot to live up too. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/promise-kept\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Promise Kept&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70,71,48],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-duck","tag-ducklings","tag-mallard","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}