{"id":1020,"date":"2014-09-21T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2014\/09\/21\/140921-firstsquirrel\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:24:55","slug":"140921-firstsquirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/09\/21\/140921-firstsquirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"It took almost seven years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but they finally made it to our backyard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/1stsquirrel.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Squirrel in tree\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not thrilled about having squirrels in our neighborhood, but their appearance was inevitable. We are sequestered by at least a quarter mile of treeless pasture on every side, but a lot of trees come in via landscapers and it was just a matter of time before some of these guys hitched a ride.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I have anything against squirrels, but I&#8217;m dealing with enough distractions as it is without&#8230;oh, look!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but they finally made it to our backyard. I&#8217;m not thrilled about having squirrels in our neighborhood, but their appearance was inevitable. We are sequestered by at least a quarter mile of treeless pasture on every side, but a lot of trees come in via landscapers and it was just a matter of time before&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/09\/21\/140921-firstsquirrel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It took almost seven years&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-wildlife-mammals","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9223,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/9223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}