{"id":139,"date":"2011-05-04T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T03:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taojones.net\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-05-04T22:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T06:21:04","slug":"not-so-fluffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Not So Fluffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;\"><a title=\"Not So Fluffy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tygh\/5688726973\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5068\/5688726973_08a443cf61.jpg\" alt=\"Not So Fluffy by Tygh\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tygh\/5688726973\/\">Not So Fluffy<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tygh\/\">Tygh<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Today was a nice, sunny day which made it harder than usual to concentrate.<\/p>\n<p>I got a picture of a new visitor to the backyard this afternoon. I don&#8217;t know if he is here because I keep taking the healthy and strong competition out of the neighborhood, but this sorry little guy has taken up residence in some pretty choice territory.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t have a bushy tail. Alopecia seems to have set in back there. He also has a bum right rear leg. As a result of these two conditions, he scoots along the top of the fence with a very low profile. He uses the gimpy leg to hook himself to the metal post as he leans toward the feeder to get a bite.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to trap him like the others, but I can&#8217;t really bear it. He doesn&#8217;t eat the suet since he can&#8217;t reach it, and he is sort of a pathetic underdog.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even tried to catch him in the trap, but since he doesn&#8217;t sit on his haunches like other squirrels, he has been able to trigger the trap without latching it. If the trap doesn&#8217;t latch, he just slips out the way he came in.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should call him lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not So Fluffy, a photo by Tygh on Flickr. Today was a nice, sunny day which made it harder than usual to concentrate. I got a picture of a new visitor to the backyard this afternoon. I don&#8217;t know if he is here because I keep taking the healthy and strong competition out of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/taojones.net\/?p=139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not So Fluffy<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}