{"id":5797,"date":"2013-12-07T19:15:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T23:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2013-12-07T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T23:15:31","slug":"vole-control-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5797","title":{"rendered":"Vole control: the fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fleeing-vole-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1512\" height=\"1007\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fleeing-vole-1.jpg\" alt=\"fleeing-vole-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fleeing-vole-1.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fleeing-vole-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fleeing-vole-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A vole flees the fire in the wildflower patch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were two voles hiding under the brush pile when Ken lit it on fire. As soon as they perceived what was going on, they ran to another brush pile a few feet away that was waiting to be burned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poor things,&#8221; said Ken. But we burned the brush in the wildflower patches anyway. The voles fled toward the garden when the last brush pile was thrown onto the fire. I would have preferred that they&#8217;d gone to the woods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ken-fire-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1960\" height=\"3008\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ken-fire-3.jpg\" alt=\"ken-fire-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ken-fire-3.jpg 1960w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ken-fire-3-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ken-fire-3-667x1024.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vole flees the fire in the wildflower patch. There were two voles hiding under the brush pile when Ken lit it on fire. As soon as they perceived what was going on, they ran to another brush pile a few feet away that was waiting to be burned. &#8220;Poor things,&#8221; said Ken. But we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vole control: the fire&#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":[15,18],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land","tag-ken-ilgunas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","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=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}