{"id":8376,"date":"2023-03-02T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2023-03-05T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T10:21:16","slug":"misc-squirrelympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8376","title":{"rendered":"MiSC: Squirrelympics!?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lg5wznn3IBE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend on Facebook just shared this. How great are squirrels? Just watch to learn. A fun and uplifting video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have squirrels. We also have a walnut tree, actually in a neighbour\u2019s garden. But overhanging ours. When we moved in here, I wondered, for a while, how and why we were continually being carpet-bombed with empty walnut shells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting rather poorly on my Sherlockian powers of deduction, it wasn\u2019t until I was literally sat \u2018neath the trees at the back end of the garden, that I twigged. I could hear debris falling around me and I could hear an odd \u2018scrit-scrit-scrit-scrit\u2019 sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked up, and cool as a cucumber, there was a rather ballsy (very literally) squirrel, leisurely enjoying chomping away on his walnuts. I don\u2019t know how many squirrels we have living nearby. The most I see is a couple chasing each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As this video demonstrates, it can be quite rewarding to pay more attention to these fabulous little furry critters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on Facebook just shared this. How great are squirrels? Just watch to learn. A fun and uplifting video. We have squirrels. We also have a walnut tree, actually in a neighbour\u2019s garden. But overhanging ours. When we moved in here, I wondered, for a while, how and why we were continually being carpet-bombed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MiSC: Squirrelympics!?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[224,181,89,73,94,226,146,93,81,67,77,71,225,111,104],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2b6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}