{"id":12333,"date":"2017-05-24T18:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T23:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12333"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T13:18:16","slug":"eastern-cottontail-sylvilagus-floridanus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12333","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Cottontail (<em>Sylvilagus floridanus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12335\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12335\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12335\" data-wp-pid=\"12335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170524_141952.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Cottontail (<em>Sylvilagus floridanus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rabbits. We&#8217;ve got rabbits. Eastern cottontail rabbits, to be precise (<em>Sylvilagus floridanus<\/em>). Apparently they have been multiplying like, well, rabbits. It&#8217;s not uncommon this spring to see four or five in the back yard at once. And there will be others in the front yard, as well. Mostly they are eating clover and not causing too much trouble with our garden so we put up with them. This many of them, though, and I&#8217;m starting to wonder how the local fox population is doing. Either there aren&#8217;t enough foxes to take care of the rabbits or they are simply not keeping up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbits. We&#8217;ve got rabbits. Eastern cottontail rabbits, to be precise (Sylvilagus floridanus). Apparently they have been multiplying like, well, rabbits. It&#8217;s not uncommon this spring to see four or five in the back yard at once. And there will be others in the front yard, as well. Mostly they are eating clover and not causing &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12336,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions\/12336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}