{"id":32564,"date":"2024-10-09T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=32564"},"modified":"2024-10-06T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:27:10","slug":"kissing-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2024\/10\/kissing-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissing squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32565\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/24O_9178-RAW-kissing-squirrels-standard.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32565\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/24O_9178-RAW-kissing-squirrels-standard.jpg\" alt=\"smelling squirrels\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashland, Oregon (October 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our backyard is always the territory of a neighborhood squirrel. When another squirrel enters the arena, the neighborhood squirrel chases it until it leaves. I&#8217;ve seen this happen hundreds of times over the past 24 years. Until the day I took this picture&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>These two were hanging out, enjoying each other&#8217;s company, and seemed to be in a constant state of friendly communication for hours. That was a first! I checked to see when squirrels mate, and it isn&#8217;t this time of year so I&#8217;m not sure what was going on with these two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our backyard is always the territory of a neighborhood squirrel. When another squirrel enters the arena, the neighborhood squirrel chases it until it leaves. I&#8217;ve seen this happen hundreds of times over the past 24 years. Until the day I took this picture&#8230; These two were hanging out, enjoying each other&#8217;s company, and seemed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[1213,995,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32566,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32564\/revisions\/32566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}