{"id":560,"date":"2009-05-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=560"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:54:52","slug":"golf-with-the-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Golf With The Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, psychologist Richard  \t\tWiseman and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, finished  \t\ta year-long LaughLab experiment, concluding that of all animals, ducks  \t\tattract most the humor and silliness; he said &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to tell a  \t\tjoke involving an animal, make it a duck.&#8221; The word &#8220;duck&#8221; may have  \t\tbecome an inherently funny word in many languages possibly because ducks  \t\tare seen as silly in their looks or behavior. The <strong><a href=\"\/old-ranch\/wildlife\/ducks\/index.htm\">ducks of Old Ranch are no exception<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_561\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/old-ranch\/wildlife\/ducks\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-561\" title=\"or_ducks_april_24_2009_002\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/05\/or_ducks_april_24_2009_002.jpg\" alt=\"Silly ducks, you can't play golf!\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/05\/or_ducks_april_24_2009_002.jpg 450w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/05\/or_ducks_april_24_2009_002-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/05\/or_ducks_april_24_2009_002-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silly ducks, you can&#39;t play golf!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, psychologist Richard Wiseman and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, finished a year-long LaughLab experiment, concluding that of all animals, ducks attract most the humor and silliness; he said &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to tell a joke involving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}