{"id":20722,"date":"2020-08-03T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20722"},"modified":"2020-08-03T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:15:11","slug":"playing-chicken-with-a-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20722","title":{"rendered":"Playing chicken with a squirrel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;haven&#8217;t talked about some nonsense things in quite a while but a funny thing happened on the way back from the ride this morning that I am still laughing about that I thought I&#8217;d share&#8230;after getting through the park and hitting the newly paved part of Valley over by the park, I saw a squirrel just sitting in the road about 25 yards in front of me&#8230;most of the time, they will take off running before I get much closer than that&#8230;but not this squirrel&#8230;as I rode toward him, he just sat there looking straight at me not moving at all and not even doing the nervous darting that they normally do&#8230;when I got about a wheel width from him, he finally took off and ran under a car that was parked in the street&#8230;I have never had a squirrel play chicken with me before and it was one of the funniest things I have seen in a while&#8230;I never even thought to swerve around him because they normally\u00a0 take off long before I get to them&#8230;.I wonder if he does that with cars, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;haven&#8217;t talked about some nonsense things in quite a while but a funny thing happened on the way back from the ride this morning that I am still laughing about that I thought I&#8217;d share&#8230;after getting through the park and hitting the newly paved part of Valley over by the park, I saw a squirrel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing chicken with a squirrel&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-20722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20723,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20722\/revisions\/20723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}