{"id":1299,"date":"2008-06-23T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2008-06-23T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:17:12","slug":"alviiiin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/06\/23\/alviiiin\/","title":{"rendered":"ALVIIIIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leah thinks I&#8217;m crazy.  For the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve been trapping chipmunks at our house and relocating them to a park about a half mile (and across a creek) away.  I caught five yesterday and one this morning before we even left for work.  I&#8217;ve probably trapped about 20 total (not including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/2602828218\/sizes\/m\/\">the sparrow that wandered into the trap the other day<\/a>).  They just keep coming.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLeah insists the effort is pointless, that the chipmunks will continue to invade the yard and undermine our stone wall, AC unit, and front walk no matter how many I cart away.  I beg to differ.  And besides, Ava loves to hop into The Chipmunk Express (her Burley) with the caged rodent in back and ride over to the park, where I let her open the cage and let the little sucker go.  Here she is at the park during a recent release:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3242\/2602835922_b609312da8.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3242\/2602835922_b609312da8_m.jpg\" alt=\"chippy\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah thinks I&#8217;m crazy. For the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve been trapping chipmunks at our house and relocating them to a park about a half mile (and across a creek) away. I caught five yesterday and one this morning before we even left for work. I&#8217;ve probably trapped about 20 total (not including the sparrow [&hellip;]<\/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":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-house","category-outdoors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-alviiiin","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}