{"id":898,"date":"2008-01-14T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:29:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:29:41","slug":"decoys-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Decoys again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Quick – name that duck! I went to a new (to me) decoy show this afternoon hoping to find a nice oldsquaw to add to the growing collection here, but was disappointed. Oldsqauw don’t seem to be popular decoy subjects and I wonder why. I’d thought maybe sea ducks in general aren’t often made, but bufflehead and mergansers are very popular. Anybody know?<\/p>\n

As shows go, this one didn’t compare with the Tuckerton show. Very few vendors and very few nicely done decoys. So I came home with the wallet intact, at least.
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First thing this morning I was reading an article<\/a> in the local paper about duck hunting in the area. It seems like every year around this time certain locals get up in arms about something that’s been done here forever. As a birder, duck hunting bothers me, of course, but the folks who live along the local rivers claim that it disturbs their peaceful enjoyment of their homes. I won’t say anymore than that I think the issue is their<\/em> peaceful enjoyment of the water and the hell with anyone else<\/em> who doesn’t own waterfront property. Enough said!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick – name that duck! I went to a new (to me) decoy show this afternoon hoping to find a nice oldsquaw to add to the growing collection here, but was disappointed. Oldsqauw don’t seem to be popular decoy subjects and I wonder why. I’d thought maybe sea ducks in general aren’t often made, but … Continue reading Decoys again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}