{"id":10399,"date":"2013-05-30T23:42:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T03:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=10399"},"modified":"2013-05-30T23:42:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T03:42:47","slug":"three-little-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/30\/three-little-foxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Three little foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently spotted a groundhog living under our shed, and have been pondering how best to get rid of it. So this morning, when Irene saw tiny creatures frolicking at the base of the shed, she thought\u2014we&#8217;re too late! The groundhog&#8217;s already given birth!<\/p>\n<p>But when we looked more closely, we saw those weren&#8217;t tiny groundhogs gamboling &#8230; they were baby foxes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0530131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10400\" alt=\"Fox0530131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0530131-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0530131-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0530131-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0530131.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three of them, in fact!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0330132.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10401\" alt=\"Fox0330132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0330132-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0330132-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0330132-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fox0330132.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d care to see what we saw, check out the video below. The babies occasionally run off into the shade and become somewhat invisible, but still &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7yw3tb6FeNs?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should feel guilty for privileging foxes (which we hope will stay) over groundhogs (which we wish would vamoose). But I don&#8217;t feel guilty in the least!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently spotted a groundhog living under our shed, and have been pondering how best to get rid of it. So this morning, when Irene saw tiny creatures frolicking at the base of the shed, she thought\u2014we&#8217;re too late! The groundhog&#8217;s already given birth! But when we looked more closely, we saw those weren&#8217;t tiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-10399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}