{"id":362,"date":"2010-12-02T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/otter-in-the-dirt-pit.html"},"modified":"2010-12-02T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:27:45","slug":"otter-in-the-dirt-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/otter-in-the-dirt-pit.html","title":{"rendered":"Otter in the dirt pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5226157503\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5005\/5226157503_c8ba650871_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe dogs found something in the dirt pit.\nWatch\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0HLMqvxkvRo\">\nthe video below<\/a> and eventually you will see it:\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0HLMqvxkvRo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s an otter, also known as the North American river otter\nor the river otter,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiawildlife.com\/node\/1118\">\nLutra canadensis<\/a>, or those otters that tear holes in the dam.\nThis one is not very big.\nApparently it came up here during the rain night before last.\n<p>\nAnd I guess otters are smarter than beavers,\nbecause <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/beaver-v-dogs.html\">the beaver that wandered into the dirt pit like that<\/a>\neventually lost to the dogs.\nThe otter had enough sense to run away once the dogs were distracted.\n<p>\nPicture and video by Gretchen Quarterman, 1 Dec 2010, Lowndes County, Georgia;\nposted by John S. Quarterman.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: The trees are in there due to a pine beetle infestation.\nIf you&#8217;ve got a cure, I&#8217;m all ears.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dogs found something in the dirt pit. Watch the video below and eventually you will see it:","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,71],"tags":[1116,3,23,5,2,1117,2771,1118],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-mammals","tag-1-dec-2010","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lutra-canadensis","tag-otter","tag-river-otter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-5Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}