{"id":792,"date":"2010-10-01T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T00:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2010-10-01T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T00:43:43","slug":"wawa-goose-wawa-ontario-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/wawa-goose-wawa-ontario-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa Goose, Wawa, Ontario, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Wawa Goose, Wawa, Ontario, 2010 by larkvi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/5042588331\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4083\/5042588331_dcd2f6c8cd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Wawa Goose, Wawa, Ontario, 2010\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this giant metal goose in Wawa, Ontario, which is in fact the town&#8217;s major claim to fame, as said goose is apparently famous in Canada (you&#8217;ll just have to take my word on this one). Theoreticallly, the goose commemorates the completion of the Trans-Canada highway, but the real reason behind it was to have some big thing to actually make tourists care to come to Wawa. It has worked&#8211;somewhat. THe goose is really on the edge of Wawa, so you don&#8217;t need to go into town to visit it, and I am not sure what percentage do or don&#8217;t. But there it is: big goose in Wawa&#8211;stop by if you&#8217;re in the neighbourhood. You can even donate for the replacement, as this goose is apparently cooked. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s this giant metal goose in Wawa, Ontario, which is in fact the town&#8217;s major claim to fame, as said goose is apparently famous in Canada (you&#8217;ll just have to take my word on this one). Theoreticallly, the goose commemorates the completion of the Trans-Canada highway, but the real reason behind it was to have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/wawa-goose-wawa-ontario-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wawa Goose, Wawa, Ontario, 2010&#8221;<\/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":[8],"tags":[168,357,621,635,762,921,924,963],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-canada","tag-goose","tag-northern-ontario","tag-ontario","tag-roadside-attracitons","tag-tourist-trap","tag-trans-canada-highway","tag-wawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}