{"id":27388,"date":"2014-08-07T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=27388"},"modified":"2014-08-07T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:45:48","slug":"its-a-whistle-pig-or-a-land-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=27388","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a whistle pig or a land-beaver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lughnasa Moon<\/p>\n<p>Hot times outside this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>What does Rigel\u00a0see?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0454.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27389 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0454-e1407444191228.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0454\" width=\"339\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It appears she (and the other three)\u00a0have treed a woodchuck. Yes, it is, as Wikipedia says a groundhog, a land-beaver, or a whistle pig. They&#8217;re a member of the Marmot family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27390 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0452-e1407444215491.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0452\" width=\"339\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>The dogs seem to think that if they bark loud enough and long enough the land-beaver will drop out of the tree into their mouths. Doubtful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lughnasa Moon Hot times outside this afternoon. What does Rigel\u00a0see? &nbsp; It appears she (and the other three)\u00a0have treed a woodchuck. Yes, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=27388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s a whistle pig or a land-beaver!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2040,56,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anoka-county","category-dogs","category-our-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27391,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions\/27391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}