{"id":7443,"date":"2010-05-27T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wordpress\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2022-07-12T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:00:46","slug":"spring-elk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/2010\/05\/27\/spring-elk\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Elk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before work today I decided to check up on the flowers at Plainview in Jefferson County, CO. There were about 10 deer along the road and after walking around the Prairie for a bit I noticed 3 elk off in the distance. The larger herd was about a half mile away and didn’t seem to mind me. I was taking photos of the Blue Flag Iris when the 3 Elk came closer to me. I assume that the Elk were curious to see someone not paying attention to them and they came even closer. They eventually stopped about 25ft from me and they just starred. 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There were about 10 deer along the road and after walking around the Prairie for a bit I noticed 3 elk off in the distance. The larger herd was about a half mile away and didn’t seem to mind me. I was taking photos of the Blue Flag Iris when the 3 Elk came closer to me. I assume that the Elk were curious to see someone not paying attention to them and they came even closer. They eventually stopped about 25ft from me and they just starred. I starred back and eventually they caught my scent or something and ran to the North of\u00a0me.\u00a0It was a interesting\u00a0morning for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[160,4],"tags":[6,98,81,114,48,36,44,209,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28128,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions\/28128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeldeleonphoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}