{"id":13737,"date":"2014-01-23T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=13737"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:48:39","slug":"what-do-you-mean-it-is-only-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/01\/23\/what-do-you-mean-it-is-only-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Mean It Is Only Thursday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-168996 size-full\" title=\"Young American Bison licking it\u2019s lips, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-bison-calf-tongue-mia-mcpherson-9868.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-bison-calf-tongue-mia-mcpherson-9868.jpg\" alt=\"Young American Bison licking it\u2019s lips, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah\" width=\"612\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"13736\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27612%27%20height%3D%27800%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20612%20800%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27612%27%20height%3D%27800%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-bison-calf-tongue-mia-mcpherson-9868-200x261.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-bison-calf-tongue-mia-mcpherson-9868-400x523.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-bison-calf-tongue-mia-mcpherson-9868-600x784.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-bison-calf-tongue-mia-mcpherson-9868.jpg 612w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Young American Bison licking it\u2019s lips<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pfflllt!! This American Bison calf seems to be saying exactly how I feel. What do you mean it is only Thursday? Why not the weekend?<\/p>\n<p>Some weeks drag on, so slowly that it feels like time has stopped.<\/p>\n<p>I keep funny images even when they aren&#8217;t perfect because I know that someday, sometime, I may need them to accentuate a point. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/42408-Bison-bison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">American Bison<\/span><\/a> calf image fits how I am feeling right now to a T.<\/p>\n<p>Pfflllt!!<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/american-bison-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my American Bison photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfflllt!! This American Bison calf seems to be saying exactly how I feel. What do you mean it is only Thursday? Why not the weekend?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168996,"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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443,511,89,26],"tags":[4463,745,4350,4426,3981,4035,4032],"class_list":["post-13737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bison","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-humor","category-utah","tag-american-bison","tag-bison-bison","tag-buffalo","tag-calf","tag-davis-county","tag-nature-photography","tag-wildlife-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-bison-calf-tongue-mia-mcpherson-9868.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-3zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27221,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/08\/06\/the-american-bison-calves-are-not-so-little-or-red-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":13737,"position":0},"title":"The 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