{"id":790,"date":"2009-08-20T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:12:45","slug":"fisher-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/790\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisher Cats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by 445 Sugar Rd. this week only to see my mother in the driveway with a shovel and plastic grocery bag in hand.  What&#8217;s this?  Oh, nothing&#8230; just preparing to go scoop up a dead fisher cat baby from off the side of the road!!  Go Mom!  So, I went down with here and saw a fisher cat up close and personal.  He was a cute little baby, but I know that it is only a matter of time until he tries to eat my cats.  Maybe they&#8217;re related to ALF?     <\/p>\n<p>Fisher cats are funny.  In junior high my Dad started talking about them, finding evidence of them in our nearby conservation land, and blaming them for Spooky&#8217;s death!  Bless your soul Spooky.  It was a bit like an urban legend.  No one had ever heard of one&#8230; except my Dad!  \ud83d\ude42  Good ol&#8217; fisher cats.  This spring I did see my first one crossing the road in Boxborough.  But, this little dead baby was the first one I really got to check out. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG8029-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG8029\" title=\"CIMG8029\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG8029-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG8029-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG8029.JPG 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by 445 Sugar Rd. this week only to see my mother in the driveway with a shovel and plastic grocery bag in hand. What&#8217;s this? Oh, nothing&#8230; just preparing to go scoop up a dead fisher cat baby from off the side of the road!! Go Mom! So, I went down with here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}