{"id":3896,"date":"2012-02-21T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2012-02-21T20:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:44:35","slug":"taming-of-the-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/taming-of-the-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming of the Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq1.jpg\" alt=\"sq1\" title=\"sq1\" width=\"470\" height=\"311\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq2.jpg\" alt=\"sq2\" title=\"sq2\" width=\"470\" height=\"711\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq2.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq2-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq3.jpg\" alt=\"sq3\" title=\"sq3\" width=\"470\" height=\"311\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq3.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq3-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq4.jpg\" alt=\"sq4\" title=\"sq4\" width=\"470\" height=\"711\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq4.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq4-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq5.jpg\" alt=\"sq5\" title=\"sq5\" width=\"470\" height=\"311\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq5.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sq5-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upon returning from a &#8216;get-outta-the-house&#8217; mind clearing walk, I found this squirrel hanging out by my deck looking for something to eat.. So I tossed him a handful of sunflower seeds, and he let me come as close as I wanted.. And we hung out for about half an hour.. Strangely I had just read the following Bob Ross quote before I took a walk (I enjoy reading quotes often..): <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;People look at me like I&#8217;m a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That&#8217;s ok. Thaaaat&#8217;s just ok.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The same squirrel is, as I type, sitting right outside my screen door next to where I am, and there&#8217;s a red-shafted flicker and a female downy woodpecker about 1\/3 it&#8217;s size competing for space on my bird feeder while a male cardinal spies them from a neighboring tree. And I&#8217;m totally enjoying it all. (It&#8217;s the simple things..)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon returning from a &#8216;get-outta-the-house&#8217; mind clearing walk, I found this squirrel hanging out by my deck looking for something to eat.. So I tossed him a handful of sunflower seeds, and he let me come as close as I wanted.. And we hung out for about half an hour.. Strangely I had just read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}