{"id":1802,"date":"2004-08-12T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2004-08-12T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T00:00:04","slug":"squirrel-with-an-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel With an Itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TreeSeesMe.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/TreeSeesMe.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSpotted this guy on the way to the car from work.  Actually, to be more accurate he spotted me.  It was kind of a surprise to be walking past a tree and suddenly realize that part of the trunk is watching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He eventually decided that I wasn&#8217;t a threat, climbed down, and started advancing on me slowly, probably thinking that the camera was some novel method of dispensing food.<\/p>\n<p>Then he was overcome by a bout of itching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SquirrelWithAnItch.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/SquirrelWithAnItch_real.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted this guy on the way to the car from work. Actually, to be more accurate he spotted me. It was kind of a surprise to be walking past a tree and suddenly realize that part of the trunk is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}