{"id":218606,"date":"2010-01-21T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012876fddf18970c"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:44:40","slug":"happy-squirrel-appreciation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218606","title":{"rendered":"Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/La3UpqkXH8Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/La3UpqkXH8Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Whew!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/01\/national-penguin-awareness-day.html\">With National Penguin Awareness Day behind us<\/a>, we can finally turn all our energies toward celebrating <em>today&#8217;s<\/em> made-up animal-related holiday: Squirrel Appreciation Day.\u00a0 You know, the day when all Americans take time out to remember those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGhZHlpSE6k\">feisty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/07\/tv-news-cameraman-frees-squirrel-from-yogurt-cup.html\">funny<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=37fDXX9stJY\">athletic<\/a> little guys with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY\">penchant for obstacle courses<\/a> and an unfortunate tendency to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ikH9ZRcF2Q\">overdo it with the fermented pumpkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christy Hargrove, a certified wildlife rehabilitator from North Carolina, started Squirrel Appreciation Day back in 2001.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s the most unofficial of unofficial holidays and no events are scheduled to commemorate it, &quot;you can help celebrate by putting out extra food for the squirrels,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/christywisty.tripod.com\/info.html\">Hargrove writes on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2009\/06\/enterprising-squirrel-tries-to-eat-a-coconut.html\">Your morning adorable: Enterprising squirrel tries to eat a coconut<\/a><br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2008\/08\/hosing-down-tho.html\">Hosing down the squirrels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n<p><em>Video: A squirrel makes use of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbird.com\/se6678.html\">Squngee<\/a>, which is pretty much just what it sounds like.\u00a0 Credit: nrolls74 via YouTube<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew!\u00a0 With National Penguin Awareness Day behind us, we can finally turn all our energies toward celebrating today&#8217;s made-up animal-related holiday: Squirrel Appreciation Day.\u00a0 You know, the day when all Americans take time out to remember those feisty, funny, athletic little guys with a penchant for obstacle courses and an unfortunate tendency to overdo it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}