{"id":18877,"date":"2020-05-01T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18877"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:18:39","slug":"squirrel-on-a-cow-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18877","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel on a Cow Skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18879\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200501_175555.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18879\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200501_175555-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Squirrel on a Cow Skull\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200501_175555-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200501_175555-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200501_175555-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200501_175555-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200501_175555.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squirrel on a Cow Skull<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I were out in the back yard and we heard a scratching noise. We&#8217;re used to quite a bit of noise from birds and occasional tree frogs, but this was quite different and we didn&#8217;t recognize it. We finally noticed this squirrel on the cow skull that&#8217;s hanging on our back fence. The squirrel, in typical rodent fashion, was gnawing on the top of the skull. I assume it&#8217;s gnawing on the bone to get calcium and other nutrients. Anyway, it&#8217;s one of the reasons you only find relatively fresh bones in the wild. They don&#8217;t last long unless they get buried (and probably even then).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I were out in the back yard and we heard a scratching noise. We&#8217;re used to quite a bit of noise from birds and occasional tree frogs, but this was quite different and we didn&#8217;t recognize it. We finally noticed this squirrel on the cow skull that&#8217;s hanging on our back fence. The &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18877\">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":[2370,2304,2369,2305,2306,2302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877"}],"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=18877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18880,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions\/18880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}