{"id":2505,"date":"2008-08-29T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T13:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2008-08-29T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T14:01:17","slug":"meet-didelphus-virginianis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2505","title":{"rendered":"Meet Didelphus Virginianis"},"content":{"rendered":"

or the Virginia Opossum.<\/p>\n

didelphus-virginianis.JPG <\/a><\/p>\n

(Click, as Eli’s son says, to Embiggen.) <\/p>\n

We left the garage door open sunday evening later than normal, (we tend to keep it closed- a lot of tools, you understand) and we got a visitor. he manifested himself early monday, not by his presence but his actions- we found stiff from shelves knocked all over the garage floor. <\/p>\n

I thought maybe we had a raccoon, but I should have known it was a ‘possum, coons are much more energetic animals. Anyway, I borrowed a live trap and with the help of a healthy dollop of peanut butter, had him out of the garage first thing in the AM. <\/p>\n

Let him loose in the backyard, the daughter was impressed at the speed at which he took off up a tree. <\/p>\n

I won’t eat a possum- or, for that matter, a raccoon, but I don’t wish any harm of the critters. And I won’t shoot ’em unless they’re damaging something. He’s free now, and I’m happy for him, mostly happy to have him out of my basement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

or the Virginia Opossum. (Click, as Eli’s son says, to Embiggen.) We left the garage door open sunday evening later than normal, (we tend to keep it closed- a lot of tools, you understand) and we got a visitor. he manifested himself early monday, not by his presence but his actions- we found stiff from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}