{"id":1159,"date":"2011-01-09T22:47:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T03:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2011-01-09T22:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T03:47:48","slug":"a-night-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/a-night-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick post to mention an encounter I had shortly after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 I was taking food scraps out to the compost pile late in the evening.\u00a0 I often see various wildlife prowling around the yard and sometimes in or near the compost.\u00a0 That night, as I approached the pile, I heard something scrambling through the leaves, and then I saw in my flashlight beam that it was fleeing up a small tree.\u00a0 I took out the old cell phone cam and got a picture of this individual, who had paused at about my eye level:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/possumnight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1160\" title=\"possumnight\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/possumnight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/possumnight.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/possumnight-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t recognize it, that would be an opossum.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen it, or another like it, on several other occasions around our house.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also seen skunks some of the time, and I&#8217;m always glad not to be startling one of those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick post to mention an encounter I had shortly after Thanksgiving.\u00a0 I was taking food scraps out to the compost pile late in the evening.\u00a0 I often see various wildlife prowling around the yard and sometimes in or near the compost.\u00a0 That night, as I approached the pile, I heard something scrambling through the leaves, &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/a-night-visitor\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}