{"id":3085,"date":"2011-06-06T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2011-06-06T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:08:25","slug":"mr-groundhog-comes-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Groundhog comes calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mr-groundhog-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mr-groundhog-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mr-groundhog-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3086\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My front door<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, while I was upstairs at the computer, I heard a thumping noise downstairs. It sounded as though it was coming from the front porch, or the front door. It sounded more like thumping than knocking. I stepped into the upstairs bedroom to make sure Lily was on the bed where I thought she was. She was, but she had an alert, confused look on her face. She&#8217;d heard the sound too.<\/p>\n<p>I went down the steps, and there at the front door, nose to the glass, was a groundhog. I don&#8217;t know what he was doing. Trying to get the door open? Curious about what was inside? Intrigued by his reflection in the glass? Knocking?<\/p>\n<p>In any case, when he saw me, he clumsily bounded down the steps and ran back into the rabbit patch, pausing a couple of times to look back over his shoulder at me. It all happened too fast for me to grab the camera, so that&#8217;s a scene that I was unable to capture, like the time before the garden fence was built when I found a deer and two turkeys raiding the garden together.<\/p>\n<p>The behavior of wild animals can be so puzzling. But I do believe they&#8217;re much smarter than we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My front door Earlier today, while I was upstairs at the computer, I heard a thumping noise downstairs. It sounded as though it was coming from the front porch, or the front door. It sounded more like thumping than knocking. I stepped into the upstairs bedroom to make sure Lily was on the bed where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Groundhog comes calling&#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-3085","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\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}