{"id":17825,"date":"2025-04-24T22:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17825"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:24:11","slug":"its-white-sucker-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/24\/its-white-sucker-time\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s white sucker time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_sucker\">White suckers<\/a> were running the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/?mlat=43.77844&amp;mlon=-79.19167#map=16\/43.77844\/-79.19167\">weir<\/a> on Highland Creek in Morningside Park on their way upstream to spawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 854 \/ 480;\" width=\"854\" controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/foomies.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">lookit that little sucker go!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 854 \/ 480;\" width=\"854\" controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/white_sucker_time.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">white suckers say hello<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded the first video to Wikimedia Commons for anyone to use: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Catostomus_commersonii_runs_the_Highland_Creek_Weir.webm\">File:Catostomus commersonii runs the Highland Creek Weir.webm &#8211; Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White suckers were running the weir on Highland Creek in Morningside Park on their way upstream to spawn. I&#8217;ve uploaded the first video to Wikimedia Commons for anyone to use: File:Catostomus commersonii runs the Highland Creek Weir.webm &#8211; Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[2901,43,3342],"class_list":["post-17825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish","category-photo","tag-fish","tag-toronto","tag-zoomies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4Dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17831,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions\/17831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}