{"id":2896,"date":"2015-04-28T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2015-04-28T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:02:16","slug":"suppertime-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"Suppertime Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arose from the dinner table last evening, took a look out the front door and noticed that we had a suppertime visitor. <\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;fellow&#8221; was rooting around for supper in the leaves on the inside of the stone wall down by the road; I am unsure as to what it is eating.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I took the camera and headed out the door. Porcupines are pretty easy to photograph. Their sight is not particularly keen so if one moves slowly on can get pretty close. I stopped and set up the camera\/tripod about twenty or thirty feet away.<\/p>\n<p>I made eleven exposures before I was noticed. At this point the critter ambled down across the road and into the woods. <\/p>\n<p>I do not believe that concept of &#8220;hurry&#8221; exists in the porcupine universe! <\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=351 autoscroll = false width = 800 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arose from the dinner table last evening, took a look out the front door and noticed that we had a suppertime visitor. This &#8220;fellow&#8221; was rooting around for supper in the leaves on the inside of the stone wall down by the road; I am unsure as to what it is eating. Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[67,73,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-spring","category-mammals","category-monadnock-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}