{"id":3207,"date":"2009-11-22T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2009-11-22T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:57:08","slug":"kids-playing-in-a-puddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=3207","title":{"rendered":"Kids Playing in a Puddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came upon some great footage on You Tube, from David Neils. It shows three elk playing in a forest puddle. Embedding is disabled on that particular clip &#8212; but you can link to it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ixhp1hfu8es&amp;feature=related\">Three Elk Calves in a Puddle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This companion video below, also from Neils, shows what most people would construe as play &#8212; among elk calves. Of course, since we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in their heads and hearts, there will always be people who call &#8220;anthropomorphism&#8221; when you suggest that animals share some of our qualities and capabilities, including playfulness. Well, anthropomorphism is a sticky point in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/quark-philosophy\/\">personal philosophy<\/a> so I&#8217;ll gladly take the hits when I say, yep, wild animals have fun, too. <\/p>\n<p><i>You can learn more about David Neils and his trail cam work at his website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offthepavement.org\/\">Off the Pavement<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N8XwNLwLh0c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N8XwNLwLh0c&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came upon some great footage on You Tube, from David Neils. It shows three elk playing in a forest puddle. Embedding is disabled on that particular clip &#8212; but you can link to it here: Three Elk Calves in a Puddle. This companion video below, also from Neils, shows what most people would construe as play &#8212; among elk calves. Of course, since we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in their heads and hearts, there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=3207\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,195,132],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baby-animals","tag-behavior","tag-elk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}