{"id":6125,"date":"2012-12-09T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2012-12-09T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:03:25","slug":"winter-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/winter-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This may sound a little strange, but I love how animals bulk up and their fur grows thick as the winter approaches. I’ve been aiding my little squirrel friends in their winter prep with sunflower seeds and corn. I find them waiting on my deck railings every morning as the sun rises, knowing that I’ll be fixing them up soon.<\/p>\n

\nI spent last night at my mom’s house hanging out with my cat (my family tends to think I come just to see the cat) and since I don’t see him regularly, he looked like a giant — at least 1\/3 bigger than he looked over the summer– he’s been gradually increasing weight and fur as the temperatures decrease. In fact, he got so scraggly during the summer that I almost took him to the vet, but I suppose it was just his way of adapting to the environment (hot as hades). There’s no question about his health now.<\/p>\n

\nI was on the road back home by 5:30am this morning, and as usual, I hit the country roads, except there was a very dense fog, and since there were no lines painted on the roads, I could hardly see where I was driving. I even had to hit my brakes for a family of bunnies that I didn’t see until I was almost on top of them. Anyway, I rerouted myself back to the main highway since it took me an hour to go 20 miles and I had an art fair to get to. And not long after I got on the highway, I spotted a coyote right alongside the road, bulked up for the winter with a thick, full coat. It was so beautiful. The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may sound a little strange, but I love how animals bulk up and their fur grows thick as the winter approaches. I’ve been aiding my little squirrel friends in their winter prep with sunflower seeds and corn. I find them waiting on my deck railings every morning as the sun rises, knowing that I’ll […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","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=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}