{"id":4070,"date":"2018-09-11T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2018-09-11T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:20:00","slug":"squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been an overabundance of squirrels this year after last year&#8217;s bumper crop of pine cones and acorns. They have been migrating across roads and rivers, looking for greener pastures. This week we have seen them swimming the Connecticut almost every day we have been out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-swimming-1122.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-swimming-1122.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-swimming-1122-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-swimming-1122-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-swimming-1122-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Grey squirrel swimming.\nConnecticut River, 9\/8\/18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This grey squirrel landed on the pile of logs in the middle of the river for a rest before continuing on to the Vermont side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-soggy-1072.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-soggy-1072.jpg 533w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-soggy-1072-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-soggy-1072-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><figcaption>Squirrel still soggy after his swim.\nConnecticut River, 9\/9\/18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-shake-1081.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-shake-1081.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-shake-1081-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-shake-1081-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-shake-1081-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/squirrel-shake-1081-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Even squirrels shake the water off.\nConnecticut River, 9\/9\/18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been an overabundance of squirrels this year after last year&#8217;s bumper crop of pine cones and acorns. They have been migrating across roads and rivers, looking for greener pastures. This week we have seen them swimming the Connecticut almost every day we have been out. This grey squirrel landed on the pile of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=4070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Squirrels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,160,230],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-connecticut-river","tag-squirrel","tag-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3S4pT-13E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}