{"id":699,"date":"2010-01-16T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:44:59","slug":"spruced-up-diet-for-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/16\/spruced-up-diet-for-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"Spruced-up Diet for Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From everything I&#8217;ve read, deer in Michigan eat many types of trees and shrubs, preferring cedar, white pine and maple.\u00a0 Spruce is considered a &#8220;starvation food&#8221; for deer, since they tend to eat spruce only as a last resort.\u00a0 Given our fairly mild Winter so far, I was surprised to see that my camera trap pictures caught several shots of deer nibbling on my spruce tree.\u00a0 There are white pine and cedar trees everywhere here, among the omnipresent sumac that deer are supposed to prefer.\u00a0 I suppose they&#8217;ll eat what they want.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-699 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/SUNP0020.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/SUNP0020-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-700\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-700'>\n\t\t\t\tTwo deer dining\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/SUNP0005.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/SUNP0005-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-701\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-701'>\n\t\t\t\tA deer nibbling on my spruce\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deer eating Kevin&#8217;s spruce tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upnorth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}