{"id":122,"date":"2014-03-10T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2014-03-10T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:32:13","slug":"dont-eat-the-blue-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Eat the Blue Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesotans \u201cof a certain age\u201d will remember roadside billboards with nothing but the words \u201cDon\u2019t Eat the Yellow Snow.\u201d The billboards were a (stealth?) advertising campaign by Rudy Boschwitz\u2019s Plywood Minnesota. It was a long time ago\u00a0and a Google search does not return any relevant results. But you may want to add blue to the snow colors to avoid eating.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/whitetail_deer_08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108\" alt=\"Don't eat the blue snow!\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/whitetail_deer_08-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/whitetail_deer_08-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/whitetail_deer_08-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/whitetail_deer_08.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t eat the blue snow!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the late winter when there is usually very little for deer to eat they begin to browse on common buckthorn, a plant they normally avoid. Common buckthorn contains a chemical that is expelled with the urine. The tainted urine is initially yellow or brown but, after exposure to about ten minutes of sunlight, turns bright blue or sky blue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=122\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesotans \u201cof a certain age\u201d will remember roadside billboards with nothing but the words \u201cDon\u2019t Eat the Yellow Snow.\u201d The billboards were a (stealth?) advertising campaign by Rudy Boschwitz\u2019s Plywood Minnesota. It was a long time ago\u00a0and a Google search does not return any relevant results. But you may want to add blue to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}