{"id":830,"date":"2013-11-01T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/?p=830"},"modified":"2013-11-01T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T23:34:27","slug":"squirrels-like-halloween-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/2013\/11\/01\/squirrels-like-halloween-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrels like Halloween too"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our household, we haven\u2019t made a jack-o-lantern since we were children (and even then, only once or twice out of curiosity and not missing out on a tradition). We don\u2019t like to make jack-o-lanterns because the idea of cutting up a pumpkin (which is food), letting it rot for a few weeks, then throwing it in the garbage is anathema to us.<\/p>\n

We often forgo real pumpkins in general, instead favoring plastic or foam ones, but for the past few Halloweens we have gotten a real pumpkin, left it uncut, put it on the porch as decoration, then after Halloween turned it into a pumpkin pie (which I was surprised to learn a few years ago is awesome!<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Last year, the local squirrels took a couple of nibbles out of the pumpkin out of curiosity but left it alone. We cut a chunk out of the nibble areas and pied the rest.<\/p>\n

This year, we got a few small pumpkins and put them on the porch as decoration. There were four or five little pumpkins of various shapes, sizes, and colors<\/em>. It was pretty nice.<\/p>\n

What is really amusing is that like last year, the squirrels took a couple of small bites out of the pumpkins, but unlike last year, they were not random bites; the squirrels apparently decided to make their own jack-o-lanterns.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a few of the pumpkins, and as you can see, one of them has not been touched, one has a sort of abstract looking miserable-ghost look to it, and one has a legitimately sinister look which is very amusing; too bad it doesn\u2019t have a fang-y mouth, maybe the squirrels got bored and gave up. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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In our household, we haven\u2019t made a jack-o-lantern since we were children (and even then, only once or twice out of curiosity and not missing out on a tradition). We don\u2019t like to make jack-o-lanterns because the idea of cutting up a pumpkin (which is food), letting it rot for a few weeks, then throwing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}