{"id":824,"date":"2007-03-25T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T02:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2007-05-02T21:25:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T02:25:36","slug":"roadkill-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Roadkill revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in the city, looking at roadkill is a good way to figure out which larger animals live nearby. Mostly, the only roadkill I see is dead gulls. So I was surprised to come across a dead rabbit out on Pope&#8217;s Island. The carcass was fairly old &#8212; most of the flesh had been picked out, and it was pretty dry. I hadn&#8217;t seen it before because I usually leave the road and walk through the small park.<\/p>\n<p>How had the dead rabbit gotten there? I imagined it must have come across the bridge at night, when there weren&#8217;t many cars. And how long had it lived on the island? Were there other rabbits living there? I have never seen a rabbit on Pope&#8217;s Island, and it didn&#8217;t seem possible that rabbits would want to live on a small island that is mostly parking lot and industrial buildings, with only a small park.<\/p>\n<p>About two minutes later, I saw a flash of a white tail out of the corner of my eye:&#8211; a rabbit running across the grass into a clump of bushes. Obviously the rabbits have been living there all along and I just haven&#8217;t noticed them;&#8211; it took roadkill to make me notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in the city, looking at roadkill is a good way to figure out which larger animals live nearby. Mostly, the only roadkill I see is dead gulls. So I was surprised to come across a dead rabbit out on Pope&#8217;s Island. The carcass was fairly old &#8212; most of the flesh had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}