{"id":8272,"date":"2018-11-25T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=8272"},"modified":"2018-11-25T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:22:16","slug":"i-hate-squirrels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/i-hate-squirrels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/i-hate-squirrels.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8273 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/i-hate-squirrels-1024x796.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/i-hate-squirrels-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/i-hate-squirrels-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/i-hate-squirrels-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/i-hate-squirrels.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I know they have to eat but why my tangerines?!? And my apples? It&#8217;s not fair! I scared this little rodent and he dropped the tangerine but didn&#8217;t run. He stood over it, staring at me, daring me to take it away. &#8220;Go ahead,&#8221; he&#8217;s thinking. &#8220;Take it. There&#8217;s more where that came from. And oh&#8230; thanks for planting those easy-peel ones!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far the squirrels have devastated my apple, pomegranate, and peach trees, and the tangerines are next. Why can&#8217;t they develop a taste for weeds? Why can&#8217;t I learn to use a sling shot? Where are the coyotes when you need them? Oh, wait&#8230;\u00a0 one showed up about 20 minutes later &#8211; in our backyard!!! Missed a nice lunch by 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/backyard-coyote.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8275 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/backyard-coyote-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/backyard-coyote-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/backyard-coyote-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/backyard-coyote-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/backyard-coyote.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know they have to eat but why my tangerines?!? And my apples? It&#8217;s not fair! I scared this little rodent and he dropped the tangerine but didn&#8217;t run. He stood over it, staring at me, daring me to take it away. &#8220;Go ahead,&#8221; he&#8217;s thinking. &#8220;Take it. There&#8217;s more where that came from. And [&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-8272","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\/8272","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=8272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8272\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}