{"id":1405,"date":"2010-02-26T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T01:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2011-03-31T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:00:41","slug":"falling-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/02\/26\/falling-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since putting a bird feeder outside several months ago the house has become a bit of a Disney movie &#8211; finches gather by the dozen, ducks hang out looking for spilled seeds, and increasingly-round squirrels discover surprising ways of invading the feeder.  After our third feeder became a victim of the squirrels &#8211; they somehow managed to chew off a metal perch &#8211; the sad decision was made to move to a more squirrel-proof feeder.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brome-1024-Squirrel-Buster-Cardinal\/dp\/B0007LQ3RQ\">Squirrel Buster 9000<\/a> arrived a few days ago, and this picture (by Audrey) does a decent job of capturing the frustration of our furry little friends.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/BustedSquirrel.jpg\" alt=\"The Squirrel Buster 9000 in action\" class=\"img-main\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Squirrel Buster 9000 in action.  Photo by Audrey.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since putting a bird feeder outside several months ago the house has become a bit of a Disney movie &#8211; finches gather by the dozen, ducks hang out looking for spilled seeds, and increasingly-round squirrels discover surprising ways of invading the feeder. After our third feeder became a victim of the squirrels &#8211; they somehow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/02\/26\/falling-slowly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Falling Slowly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2752,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/2752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}