{"id":1968,"date":"2005-02-24T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2007-04-08T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T19:59:29","slug":"first-groundhog-siting-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/24\/first-groundhog-siting-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"first groundhog siting of the year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8:48 this morning, on the south side of the tracks about half way between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotransit.com\/publicroot\/station\/station.asp?station=APGO\">Appleby<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotransit.com\/publicroot\/station\/station.asp?station=BUGO\">Burlington<\/a>, I saw a groundhog digging.  Though it&#8217;s still a bit parky (something like -6 \u00c2\u00b0C), it does seem that winter might finally be on its way out.<\/p>\n<p>The sight of groundhogs always fills me with more joy than it should. I mean, the idea that a terrier-sized rodent can still live in decent numbers in an urban environment with having been hunted out of existence, amazes this Scot.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there&#8217;s a lot of weather to go by before we <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1705\">hear these guys again<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8:48 this morning, on the south side of the tracks about half way between Appleby and Burlington, I saw a groundhog digging. Though it&#8217;s still a bit parky (something like -6 \u00c2\u00b0C), it does seem that winter might finally be on its way out. The sight of groundhogs always fills me with more joy than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1235,359],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-burlington","tag-groundhog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-vK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}