{"id":10828,"date":"2014-06-07T20:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T03:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2014-06-07T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T03:55:59","slug":"first-pika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10828","title":{"rendered":"First pika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pikas usually live on alpine scree slopes. I have heard their calls, <em>pee-ka<\/em>, previous years but before today, I had not\u00a0seen this relative of the rabbit. Today at an altitude of over 1100 metres, I saw my first pika. Pikas are\u00a0often considered the epitome of cute.<\/p>\n<p>Pikas are vegetarians<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10830\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pika140607as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>that live among the rocks.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10829\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pika140607bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pikas usually live on alpine scree slopes. I have heard their calls, pee-ka, previous years but before today, I had not\u00a0seen this relative of the rabbit. Today at an altitude of over 1100 metres, I saw my first pika. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10838,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}