{"id":616,"date":"2012-11-17T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=616"},"modified":"2012-11-17T23:02:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T09:02:32","slug":"a-duck-named-ping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"A Duck Named Ping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Ping the Duck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/images\/pingtheduck.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other day our friend Alice found a motherless duckling whilst she was walking her dog.<\/p>\n<p>As she has a cat as well as a dog she decided the best thing was to find a home for it quick smart.<br \/>\nThis is how we became the family for the said duckling which is now named Ping after Mum\u2019s favourite childhood storybook character.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows Ping on his first night here. He slept in a tuff tub with his new friend, Baby Bear.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning Ruby and I modified an old apple bin so Ping has a permanent home.<\/p>\n<p>This delightful little thing is so cute and I never thought I\u2019d say that about a duck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day our friend Alice found a motherless duckling whilst she was walking her dog. As she has a cat as well as a dog she decided the best thing was to find a home for it quick smart. This is how we became the family for the said duckling which is now named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}