{"id":1842,"date":"2010-04-14T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2010-04-14T18:34:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:34:34","slug":"can-you-espy-the-groundhog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Can you espy the groundhog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG' title='a-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG' alt='a-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Sorry for the blur. That happens easily with my camera when the light is low.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Solution below. Don&#8217;t peek.<\/p>\n<p>The groundhogs love to eat my clover. Until a few months ago, I had a family of groundhogs living within 25 feet of my upper porch. That was a little too close for comfort. I was afraid they&#8217;d borrow around the foundation of the house. I harrassed them whenever I saw them by making noises, throwing things, and emptying cat litter down their holes. After a few weeks of harassment, they moved back just inside the woods.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;m content with where they are. Though groundhogs can be garden pests, I think they&#8217;re one of the smaller nuisances. Unlike deer, groundhogs can&#8217;t wipe out an entire garden in one night. They&#8217;re welcome to the clover. I like the idea of providing habitat for the critters, as long as they don&#8217;t bite me or get into my food.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/b-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG' title='b-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/b-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG' alt='b-groundhog-2010-04-14-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the blur. That happens easily with my camera when the light is low. Solution below. Don&#8217;t peek. The groundhogs love to eat my clover. Until a few months ago, I had a family of groundhogs living within 25 feet of my upper porch. That was a little too close for comfort. I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can you espy the groundhog?&#8221;<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}