{"id":9672,"date":"2013-10-01T03:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T09:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:30:24","slug":"what-the-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/10\/01\/what-the-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Duck?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhatWhat the Duck?<\/span><\/p>\n

This domestic duck<\/span><\/a> image has always made me laugh so I thought I would share it and ask you all to\u00a0add your funny captions.<\/p>\n

The way my last two months have gone I asked it to peek first into the first day of October and to let me know if it is okay to greet the day or if it is just as crazy as August and September.<\/p>\n

I am really, really hoping October isn’t crazy.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my domestic duck and waterfowl hybrid photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This domestic duck image has always made me laugh so I thought I would share it and ask you all to add your funny captions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155683,"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":[27,2363,709,26],"tags":[4004,5575,4021,2364,1129,4157,90,13666,1984,8018,3996,373],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-domestic-ducks","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-anas-platyrhynchos-domesticus","tag-bird-photography","tag-domestic","tag-duck","tag-funny","tag-humor-2","tag-pekin-duck","tag-pond","tag-urban","tag-water","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/domestic-duck-mia-mcpherson-6152.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-2w0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7942,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/03\/25\/funny-monday-birds\/","url_meta":{"origin":9672,"position":0},"title":"Funny Monday Birds","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"March 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Just some funny images of birds for a Monday. 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