{"id":1130,"date":"2008-06-03T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2008-06-03T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T04:10:02","slug":"run-moose-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Run, Moose, Run!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1131\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1131\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1131\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02105x.jpg?fit=750%2C434&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,434\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Roland K Smith&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;We cruise mostly on Holland America Cruise Lines. Near the end of their Alaskan cruises they feature a desert called \\&quot;The Running Of the Moose\\&quot; which entails all the waiters running into the dining room carrying a platter of Baked Alaska with sparklers sputtering away. This moose definitely wasn&#039;t a desert but a very frightened female trying to figure out how to get away from \\&quot;civilization\\&quot; and back to her habitat. She eventually made her way across the street and into the fields behind the houses in the right and promptly disappeared.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;This image is licensed under a Creative commons Attribution 2.5 License&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Running Of the Moose&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Running Of the Moose\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;We cruise mostly on Holland America Cruise Lines. Near the end of their Alaskan cruises they feature a desert called &amp;#8220;The Running Of the Moose&amp;#8221; which entails all the waiters running into the dining room carrying a platter of Baked Alaska with sparklers sputtering away. This moose definitely wasn&amp;#8217;t a desert but a very frightened female trying to figure out how to get away from &amp;#8220;civilization&amp;#8221; and back to her habitat. She eventually made her way across the street and into the fields behind the houses in the right and promptly disappeared.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Running Of the Moose&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02105x.jpg?fit=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02105x.jpg?fit=604%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1131\" style=\"border:blue 2px solid;float:left;margin-right:8px;margin-bottom:2px;\" title=\"The Running Of the Moose\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02105x.jpg?resize=300%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Running Of the Moose\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02105x.jpg?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02105x.jpg?resize=150%2C86&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02105x.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I was working out in the garage this morning I heard a noise sounding like a horse running up the sidewalk. I looked outside in time to see a big (huge, actually) female moose go running up the sidewalk in front of our house. She was being tailed by a woman in a car, and every time the moose saw the car, she got spooked and went in another direction. She came running right at the garage and veered off to the south when she saw me standing there.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into the house, told Nina, and got my little point-and-shoot digital camera. By then, the moose had run back down the street and was where I took the picture (click twice on the picture to see the full-sized version). She spotted open field to the right and disappeared a few minutes later. I would not have thought we would have a moose in our front yard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was working out in the garage this morning I heard a noise sounding like a horse running up the sidewalk. I looked outside in time to see a big (huge, actually) female moose go running up the sidewalk in front of our house. She was being tailed by a woman in a car, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Run, Moose, Run!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-ie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}