{"id":7161,"date":"2016-02-29T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T19:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2016-02-29T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T19:09:57","slug":"take-5-leaping-for-leap-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-leaping-for-leap-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Leaping for Leap Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s February 29: Leap Day! Take a flying leap into this year’s Leap Day with these photos\u00a0from past editions of our Photo Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Nathan Goshgarian<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Zachary Caswell<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Kelley Heyworth<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Joseph Oliverio<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2013

2013 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Kevin McCarthy<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s February 29: Leap Day! Take a flying leap into this year’s Leap Day with these photos\u00a0from past editions of our Photo Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-1Rv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10602,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-caption-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":7161,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Caption This!","author":"Ryan D.","date":"February 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's play \"Caption That Photo\"! 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There\u2019s still time to enter the\u00a02014 Picture This Photo Contest! Like this? 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