{"id":2262,"date":"2011-07-09T06:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2011-07-09T06:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T13:44:53","slug":"2262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could be unexpected about seeing a Deer Mouse? It is, after all, one of the most numerous mammals in North America. This nocturnal rodent is common to many forests of British Columbia. It normally avoids cities and remains hidden during the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: -10px; margin-left: 8px; width: 260px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Deer Mouse is so named for the resemblance of its two-toned fur to the coat of a White\u2013tailed Deer. The House Mouse is uniformly greyish brown.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Deer Mouse pictured below was seen midday walking along a sidewalk in downtown Nelson.\u00a0Unfortunately, this little beastie can transmit some rather nasty diseases.<\/p>\n<p>I would prefer that this mouse and its kin hadn\u2019t taken up residence in Nelson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2245\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mouse110707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could be unexpected about seeing a Deer Mouse? It is, after all, one of the most numerous mammals in North America. This nocturnal rodent is common to many forests of British Columbia. It normally avoids cities and remains hidden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2262","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\/2262","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=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}