{"id":64912,"date":"2025-07-14T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64912\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:03:08","slug":"wandering-goose-in-hampden-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64912\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering goose in Hampden returns home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMPDEN, Maine \u2014 A friendly goose that was found walking along Main Road North in Hampden has made it home safely, according to Hampden Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Police joked that while the goose looked &#8220;cranky,&#8221; it had a &#8220;heart of gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As much as the department enjoyed the unexpected visitor, they said the droppings and feathers would be a slip hazard \u2014 and they didn&#8217;t want to deal with the paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Hampden Public Safety first asked for help finding the goose&#8217;s owner, then confirmed Saturday morning that the bird was back home where it belonged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMPDEN, Maine \u2014 A friendly goose that was found walking along Main Road North in Hampden has made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-64912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114851729187396418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}