{"id":329,"date":"2008-12-02T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/02\/acorn-news-in-your-neighborhood\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T13:35:00","slug":"acorn-news-in-your-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/02\/acorn-news-in-your-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn news in your neighborhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this blog would come in handy.<br \/>Apparently there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=97661116\">acorn shortage <\/a>in some parts of the country. I&#8217;ve already gotten one e-mail, asking whether North Country squirrels face the same trouble.  No oak trees in my yard, so I can&#8217;t offer any anecdotal evidence of my own.  What about you all in the more oak-friendly zones? &#8230;along the St. Lawrence, for instance. What&#8217;s the acorn news? More on missing acorns from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/29\/AR2008112902045.html\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<br \/>People in my neighborhood will remember the Christmas party a couple years ago, when a flying squirrel turned up in the tree&#8230;the indoors tree, that is. Fascinating to watch, very puzzling, too. How did he get in? The kids (all in their 20s) herded him around the house. It was a slow chase, really; the squirrel didn&#8217;t seem all that upset. I finally let him out the back door, hoping he could find his way back to his cache.<br \/>(As I write, I&#8217;m listening to Todd Moe&#8217;s visit to a root cellar &#8212; a human example of squirreling stuff away for winter&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this blog would come in handy.Apparently there&#8217;s an acorn shortage in some parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}