{"id":14222,"date":"2021-01-30T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14222"},"modified":"2021-02-03T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:47:07","slug":"daily_2207_-_were_feeding_a_rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/01\/30\/daily_2207_-_were_feeding_a_rat\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2207 &#8211; we&#8217;re feeding a rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2207_rat.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nLook who visited our bird feeding station: the friendly neighbourhood rat.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously one doesn&#8217;t really want rats around one&#8217;s house, but I&#8217;m coming to accept their presence as more or less inevitable. The advice for keeping rats away from your house and garden all seems infeasible. Avoid tall grass, get rid of fallen fruit, make sure there are no places for them to hide, don&#8217;t feed birds. So we could get rid of rats if we got rid of all that makes the garden lively: the tall grasses and flowering perennials near the house, the apple tree, the wooden deck, the bird feeder. And then covered the ground with concrete all around the house where the rats tend to dig their entrances into the foundation. I can only hope that all the neighbourhood&#8217;s outdoor cats do their job and don&#8217;t let the rats multiply too much.<\/p>\n<p>But it actually looks cute, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look who visited our bird feeding station: the friendly neighbourhood rat. Obviously one doesn&#8217;t really want rats around one&#8217;s house, but I&#8217;m coming to accept their presence as more or less inevitable. The advice for keeping rats away from your house and garden all seems infeasible. Avoid tall grass, get rid of fallen fruit, make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,774,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-neighbourhood","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14224,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222\/revisions\/14224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}