{"id":4079,"date":"2006-11-01T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/11\/01\/amazing-squirrels\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:36:02","slug":"amazing-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/11\/01\/amazing-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day last week, while <acronym title=\"My Lovely Bride\">MLB<\/acronym> was home during the day, we decided to practice some of our dance steps in anticipation of last Saturday&#8217;s President&#8217;s Ball. We usually practice in our game room, which is the only area of the house with enough open space. During the day, we leave our door open so that we can have a view of the backyard through the glass storm door.<\/p>\n<p>So, we were gliding (a euphemism for &#8220;stumbling&#8221;) about, practicing some swing steps (which we are really not very good with), when we happened to glance out the back door, whereupon we both immediately burst into laughter at what we saw:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px #666 solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/nature\/squirreldance.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a squirrel watching us through the back door\"><\/div>\n<p>This squirrel was standing a couple of feet from the door, peering through the glass at us. He had apparently been walking by when he happened to look in and &#8212; well, obviously, he couldn&#8217;t believe what he was seeing. In fact, he stood like that for more than a minute (long enough for me to grab my camera and snap a couple of shots), trying to comprehend the sight. I have no idea what was going through his tiny little brain, but his body language speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s humbling to know that our dancing is a source of amusement to varmints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I ever tell you my story about dancing for the animals? Well&#8230;oh look! a baby squirrel!<\/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":[8,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-nature","category-photography","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\/4079","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=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}