{"id":5151,"date":"2019-04-01T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:43:47","slug":"shed-antler-hunting-is-a-rite-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/shed-antler-hunting-is-a-rite-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Shed antler hunting is a rite of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shed whitetail deer antlers are one of spring\u2019s prized rarities, and with the right amount of time, effort and luck, nature provides ample opportunities to find them.<\/p>\n<p>While picking up a shed of any kind is a real treat, finding a matched set \u2014 particularly of trophy caliber \u2014 is an extra special blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019ve been fortunate to nab a few matched sets in my years of scouring, nothing compares to the massive set I discovered on public land in March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On a cold, rainy Saturday afternoon, something stirred inside of me. Perhaps it was the memory of a dear friend \u2014 lost in an automobile accident two years earlier, nearly to the day. Maybe it was the crummy weather, or the long winter stuck inside.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensvoice.com\/sports\/shed-antler-hunting-is-a-rite-of-spring-1.2464160\"> Shed antler hunting is a rite of spring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shed whitetail deer antlers are one of spring\u2019s prized rarities, and with the right amount of time, effort and luck, nature provides ample opportunities to find them. While picking up a shed of any kind is a real treat, finding a matched set \u2014 particularly of trophy caliber \u2014 is an extra special blessing. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-article","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5152,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}