{"id":112908,"date":"2026-07-08T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112908"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:34:00","slug":"introducing-cheese-%f0%9f%a6%86and-quackers-%f0%9f%a6%86%f0%9f%92%95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112908-introducing-cheese-%f0%9f%a6%86and-quackers-%f0%9f%a6%86%f0%9f%92%95","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Cheese \ud83e\udd86and Quackers \ud83e\udd86\ud83d\udc95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Cheese &amp; Quackers. Windermere\u2019s garden ducks. They eat grubs and help the garden. After watching them for a while, I sat on the picnic table in the garden and they followed me.<\/p>\n<p>I turned on John Morton and Leigh Taylor-Young on Blessing This Day. Cheese and Quackers stopped and stood still &#8212; didn\u2019t wiggle as John Morton shared. It was quite something. Then a John-Roger excerpt came on and the same thing, they walked under the table in the shade and stood there, quietly, while J-R shared and through to the whole swan song at the end of Blessing This Day.<\/p>\n<p>Once the song finished, they started wiggling and quacking and walked away and started eating again. \ud83d\udc95<\/p>\n<p>That was such a blessing to experience. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udc95<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CheeseQuackersVideo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/churchofmsia\/55382137036\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/31337\/55382137036_2b94dda326_z.jpg\" alt=\"CheeseQuackersVideo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Cheese &amp; Quackers. Windermere\u2019s garden ducks. They eat grubs and help the garden. After watching them for a while, I sat on the picnic table in the garden and they followed me. I turned on John Morton and Leigh Taylor-Young on Blessing This Day. Cheese and Quackers stopped and stood still &#8212; didn\u2019t wiggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-institute-for-individual-and-world-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}