{"id":85772,"date":"2017-03-30T06:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=85772"},"modified":"2017-03-30T06:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:20:31","slug":"snowy-owl-sighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/03\/30\/snowy-owl-sighted\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy owl sighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Snowy-owl-photo-3-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy owl photo 3-2017\" width=\"545\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Local photographer Russ LaBounty spotted this beautiful snowy owl in a farm field Wednesday afternoon while driving along Convoy Heller Road, about a half mile south of Elm Sugar Grove Church Road. The owl was seen at approximately 3 p.m. Wednesday, and was still there when the photos were taken around sunset. LaBounty said that seeing the owl was a thrill, since the only other snowy owls he has seen had been in zoos.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local photographer Russ LaBounty spotted this beautiful snowy owl in a farm field Wednesday afternoon while driving along Convoy Heller Road, about a half mile south of Elm Sugar Grove Church Road. The owl was seen at approximately 3 p.m. Wednesday, and was still there when the photos were taken around sunset. LaBounty said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 11:51:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}