{"id":5390,"date":"2013-06-04T15:14:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:14:01","slug":"whose-hobbit-hole-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5390","title":{"rendered":"Whose hobbit hole is this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-rabbit-hole-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/A-rabbit-hole-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-rabbit-hole-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today while mowing the grass, I found the home of a new neighbor. The burrow is only about 20 feet from the side door of the abbey, in a steep bank above a newly planted deciduous magnolia tree. It looks just like a rabbit hole. But my understanding is that the eastern cottontail rabbit, which is the common rabbit here, does not burrow. Rather, they commonly live in brush piles or other homes that they find rather than build themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen many groundhog holes, but this hole is too small for groundhogs. So now I am puzzled. I don&#8217;t know if there are burrowing rabbits in these parts. There are rabbits here, that&#8217;s for sure, because I see them in the yard every day. But I&#8217;ve always assumed that they&#8217;re cottontail rabbits that live in the brush pile down in the thicket.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever made the hole is very tidy. The landing is very neat, and they&#8217;ve spread dry glass on the floor into the burrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today while mowing the grass, I found the home of a new neighbor. The burrow is only about 20 feet from the side door of the abbey, in a steep bank above a newly planted deciduous magnolia tree. It looks just like a rabbit hole. But my understanding is that the eastern cottontail rabbit, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whose hobbit hole is this?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5390","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\/5390","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=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}