{"id":3543,"date":"2025-01-10T22:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T03:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2025-01-10T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T03:51:38","slug":"otters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"Otters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve acquired a new resident in our local lake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fbz1qURsl4o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know that river otters are native to our area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/learn-about-river-otters\">but they are<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/nature-wildlife\/mammals-in-massachusetts\/river-otters\">They were hunted for fur<\/a> and became rare &#8211; but not extinct.\u00a0 Now they&#8217;re coming back.<\/p>\n<p>Winter seems like an odd time to move in.\u00a0 The lake is busy freezing over.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, I welcome our strange new neighbor anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve acquired a new resident in our local lake. I didn&#8217;t know that river otters are native to our area, but they are. They were hunted for fur and became rare &#8211; but not extinct.\u00a0 Now they&#8217;re coming back. Winter seems like an odd time to move in.\u00a0 The lake is busy freezing over. Ah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Otters!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[913,68,132],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-events","tag-otters","tag-silver-lake","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4o3FW-otters","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}