{"id":9617,"date":"2014-01-23T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2014-01-23T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T22:47:09","slug":"vole-runways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9617","title":{"rendered":"Vole runways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Voles do not hibernate. Rather, they spend the winter underground in burrows and forage above ground using\u00a0a labyrinth of runways built under the snow. When the snow melts, the runways become exposed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some vole runways are revealed by receding snow. A colony of voles lives among the roots of a willow bush in the upper right.\u00a0In a bit of visual irony, their runways look like a classic airport terminal: a semicircular causeway links vole parking with concourses leading to distant lands.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9619\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/volerunways140123s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Voles do not hibernate. Rather, they spend the winter underground in burrows and forage above ground using\u00a0a labyrinth of runways built under the snow. When the snow melts, the runways become exposed.\u00a0\u00a0 Some vole runways are revealed by receding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9617\">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-9617","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\/9617","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=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9623,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions\/9623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}