{"id":409,"date":"2013-07-20T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/?p=409"},"modified":"2013-07-20T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T03:00:18","slug":"moose-crashes-ranch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Moose Crashes Ranch Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t your usual gate crasher.\u00a0Long legs, big ears and a schnozz the size of Rhode Island. A young moose, big enough to be dangerous, splashed into the end-of-the-week party for fifty guests at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/\" title=\"Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch<\/a> Friday night.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_407\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/media\/Moose-by-swing-84dpi-.jpg\" alt=\"Moose at Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moose Swings by Sylvan Dale<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n\u00a0At one point the moose appeared to be headed for the buffet line of fresh rainbow trout and grass-fed beef bar-b-que, but the flashes of cell phone cameras seemed to dissuade it.<div id=\"attachment_412\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/media\/Moose-swimming-in-Daddy-J-lake-84dpi-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/media\/Moose-swimming-in-Daddy-J-lake-84dpi--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Moose swimming in Daddy-J\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-412\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loch-Moose!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The moose was last seen heading up the Big Thompson River toward highway 34.<\/p>\n<p>David J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t your usual gate crasher.\u00a0Long legs, big ears and a schnozz the size of Rhode Island. A young moose, big enough to be dangerous, splashed into the end-of-the-week party for fifty guests at Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch Friday night. \u00a0At one point the moose appeared to be headed for the buffet line of fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranch-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}