{"id":8553,"date":"2011-08-18T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:50:11","slug":"squirrel-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/08\/18\/squirrel-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"More Squirrel Adventures (Limerick and More)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late March I wrote some verse about our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/30\/squirrel-limerick-tanka\/\">squirrel problem<\/a>.  More specifically, a squirrel that likes snoozing in my upstairs window sill under the AC.<\/p>\n<p>As you can tell from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/30\/squirrel-limerick-tanka\/\">tanka and limerick<\/a>, the brazen squirrel refused to be scared off.  Sure, it would leave for a while.  But just when I thought my squirrel was gone for good, there she was again in my window sill, kept outside only by a thin piece of plexiglass.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess who had babies: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-content\/themes\/default\/images\/squirrels4.jpg\" alt=\"The Squirrel That Likes To Sleep Next To My Upstairs Window AC Gave Birth To 5 Squirrel Pups In My Window Sill\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Methinks it&#8217;s time for another squirrely limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Squirrely Limerick<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A squirrel gave birth on my sill&#8212;<br \/>\nNear my window AC unit&#8217;s grill.<br \/>\nEach miniscule pup<br \/>\n(Five in all &#8212; two floors up)<br \/>\nBorn an inch from my nose &#8212; chilling thrill.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to hubby Mark for snapping that photo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/animals\/blogs\/happy-squirrel-appreciation-day\">Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day<\/a>, January 21st!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late March I wrote some verse about our squirrel problem. More specifically, a squirrel that likes snoozing in my upstairs window sill under the AC. As you can tell from my tanka and limerick, the brazen squirrel refused to be scared off. Sure, it would leave for a while. But just when I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,81,46,42,1524,20],"tags":[1380,775,433,3371,5012,3409,899,2453,2454,2455],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-humor","category-anxiety-stress","category-house-home-humor","category-limericks","category-odd-holidays","category-outdoors-humor","tag-air-conditioning-humor","tag-animal-verse","tag-house-home","tag-january-holidays","tag-odd-holidays","tag-squirrel-appreciation-day","tag-squirrel-humor","tag-squirrel-poem","tag-squirrel-reproduction","tag-vermin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18392,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}