{"id":167,"date":"2008-09-18T01:28:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/09\/18\/rip-baby-squirrel\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T17:09:58","slug":"rip-baby-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/09\/18\/rip-baby-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Baby Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I was talking with my neighbor and a baby squirrel (okay, maybe an adolescent squirrel) came stumbling out and tried to befriend me.  We suspected it was dislodged from a nest in the wind from a few days prior &mdash; or it was possibly Blondie's kin (that is, the so-named blond-hair squirrel that was flattened by automobile earlier this week).  Whatever the reason, this inexperienced tree-rat was perfectly willing to let me pet it.<\/p>\n<p>I went in and got it a banana &mdash; it seemed quite receptive to me (well, <em>anyone<\/em> I guess) giving it affection.  I pet it a bit and brought it some sunflower seeds as well.  I decided to let it be and see if its instincts would kick in after a decent (?) meal, so I headed out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/images\/2008917%201616%20BabySquirrel.jpg\" alt=\"a baby squirrel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, come 1 a.m. when I got home, I searched for it and found its lifeless body in my driveway.  I might have been able to do more, but I can only believe that its last hours were spent with a full belly, and with dreams of frolicking &mdash; cat-free &mdash; with its peers.  Perchance, even, to run confidently along the squirrel superhighway (a.k.a. human utility service wires).  Rest in peace, baby squirrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I was talking with my neighbor and a baby squirrel (okay, maybe an adolescent squirrel) came stumbling out and tried to befriend me. We suspected it was dislodged from a nest in the wind from a few days &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/09\/18\/rip-baby-squirrel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[765,416],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-day-to-day","tag-baby-squirrel","tag-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}