{"id":1777,"date":"2010-11-16T22:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T22:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1777"},"modified":"2013-11-10T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T10:39:52","slug":"when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Grow Up I want to be a Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In one of the comments[\/URL] on my earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/rattus-norvegicus\" target=\"_blank\">rat post<\/a>, Uncle Mick suggested that it&#39;s all PR and bushy tails&#8230; the reason why  squirrels are loved and rats despised. I can&#39;t be sure, but I suspect this little rodent reads this blog and, inspired by Mick, is making a bid for its own moment of &#39;cute-dom&#39;. I spotted it today playing among the fallen leaves. If ever a young rat was putting on a show, it was this one.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rat_1611109223.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rat_1611109228.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rat_1611109230.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rat_1611109241.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll skip the rivals (squirrels) for today, but will include one shot of a heron caught taking a short flight between the waterside trees.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/heron_1611109312.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[781,989],"tags":[1179,1183],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rats","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-rat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}