{"id":171,"date":"2012-03-11T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitwithakid.wordpress.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2013-07-25T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:45:30","slug":"moose-are-so-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/moose-are-so-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Moose are so cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone famous once asked me &ldquo;<em>What Good is a Moose?&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Moose antlers can grow to be more than 6 feet wide &ndash; that&rsquo;s probably bigger than you AND they carry them with their heads!<\/li>\n<li>They have built in snowshoes. Moose are the largest of the deer family, so they have giant hooves to keep them from sinking in the mud\/snow\/muck.<\/li>\n<li>Moose weigh about a ton. It would take about six Moose to make an elephant, but their legs are only an eighth in diameter.<\/li>\n<li>Adult moose can run 35 mph which is much faster than any of us can, but even 5 day old moose babies can run 5 mph. Can you imagine your 5 day old brother\/sister\/child running 12 minute miles?!? Born to run baby!<\/li>\n<li>Their antlers only take 3-5 months to develop each year. 6 feet in 3 months &ndash; that&rsquo;s the largest growth spurt I&rsquo;ve ever heard of.<\/li>\n<li>Has anyone ever tried moose milk? Apparently it&rsquo;s a real thing, but I&rsquo;m not sure if it&rsquo;s a pro or a con at this point&hellip;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sure there are many more reasons moose are awesome &ndash; if you know of any, I&rsquo;ll add them to the list. A post of moose pics might be fun too, so if you have any good ones, send &rsquo;em on over!<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wwm_social_share wwm_top_left\"><li class=\"wwm_facebook\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_twitter\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_gplus\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_pinit\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_tumblr\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_linked\"><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone famous once asked me &ldquo;What Good is a Moose?&rdquo; Well, let me tell you: Moose antlers can grow to be more than 6 feet wide &ndash; that&rsquo;s probably bigger than you AND they carry them with their heads! They have built in snowshoes. Moose are the largest of the deer family, so they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[31],"tags":[10,22],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-agate","tag-moose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JhDF-2L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}