{"id":7007,"date":"2013-05-27T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T18:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2014-05-25T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T17:39:11","slug":"skunks-need-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/skunks-need-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Skunks need glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9983.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7008\" title=\"IMG_9983\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9983.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9983-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>If it weren&#8217;t for the vile, putrefying stench, skunks are actually rather cute. But as afraid as I am of coming across a rattle snake, I was really scared when this skunk just walked up next to me in the backyard. It also happened a couple of weeks ago when a skunk walked right past me like I was invisible. They must have bad eyesight because this time it was around 7:00 pm and still light outside. I had just finished clipping some roses when this guy waddled out and acted like he was alone in the universe. I heard some rustling behind him and noticed another skunk behind some shrubs. I decided not to stay around. Not knowing what would prompt them to spray and not needing to find out, I slowly backed away into the house. I got my camera and took this picture from inside the house. He still didn&#8217;t notice me hanging out the window (maybe skunks need glasses!) but I was prepared to slam that window shut if he got too close. I wonder what would have happened if my rabbit showed up at the same time. Could they coexist? I wish I could pet all the little fuzzy animals that show up and bring them inside for a snack&#8230; except for the mangy, rat-faced, no-good, low-life, beady-eyed, scum-sucking, fruit-eating squirrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the vile, putrefying stench, skunks are actually rather cute. But as afraid as I am of coming across a rattle snake, I was really scared when this skunk just walked up next to me in the backyard. It also happened a couple of weeks ago when a skunk walked right past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-backyard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7017,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}