{"id":35025,"date":"2025-10-14T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35025"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:45:07","slug":"squirrels-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35025","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel&#8217;s find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of the morning, a squirrel was repeatedly rushing across the driveway carrying something large in its mouth. I had previously seen a squirrel carrying food or grass, but this was different.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be some pink insulating material lifted from a nearby cottage. It was not clear where the squirrel was going with it, but presumably its destination would make the squirrel&#8217;s winter a little bit more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>A red squirrel carries off some found pink insulation.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35026\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/squirrel251012s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the early hours of the morning, a squirrel was repeatedly rushing across the driveway carrying something large in its mouth. I had previously seen a squirrel carrying food or grass, but this was different. It turned out to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35025\">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-35025","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\/35025","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=35025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35028,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025\/revisions\/35028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}