{"id":26513,"date":"2019-05-16T07:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26513"},"modified":"2019-05-16T07:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:14:31","slug":"muskrats-callisthenics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26513","title":{"rendered":"Muskrat&#8217;s callisthenics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These images were taken during the same event as the previously posted <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26502\">muskrat&#8217;s kiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Midst its feeding, the muskrat climbed out and preened &#8212; almost as if it were doing callisthenics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first step is to shake off the water.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26515\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/muskrat190512es.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then there is the stretching.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26517\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/muskrat190512gs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A test of the jowls.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26518\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/muskrat190512hs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some more stretches and scratches.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26516\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/muskrat190512fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All exercise should involve some pain.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26514\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/muskrat190512ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And back to tranquility.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26524\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/muskrat190512asDMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; These images were taken during the same event as the previously posted muskrat&#8217;s kiss. Midst its feeding, the muskrat climbed out and preened &#8212; almost as if it were doing callisthenics.\u00a0 The first step is to shake off the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=26513\">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-26513","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\/26513","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=26513"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26534,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513\/revisions\/26534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}