{"id":7323,"date":"2021-09-09T07:03:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7323"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:03:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:03:49","slug":"animal-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/animal-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7323\" data-postid=\"7323\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7323 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I was sitting in OTA country and I overheard a drunken conversation between three OTAs about their encounters with bats, as in the flying mammals, and not the experience of being beat senseless with a baseball bat in a drunken brawl of some kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One story was about hitting a bat with a bus. Another was about camping and a bat in a tent. The final one was about a bat in a boat. All three stories also involved alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It occurred to me that I had bat story, too. One time a bat flew into my house and I captured it with a sheet and set it free. Alcohol was involved in that story as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I listened to the bat conversation, it also occurred to me that I have a lot of stories involving animals in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a lot of deer and elk stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a lot of coyote stories, including a supernatural one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have four bear stories, including one where I hit one in the head with a broom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have one cougar story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a bobcat story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have several raccoon stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have two porcupine stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a dolphin story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a (dead) whale story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have loads of seal and sea lion stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have three otter stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have three owl stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have plenty of blue heron, crow, hummingbird, gull, raptor and barn swallow stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have innumerable chipmunk and squirrel stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have multiple beaver stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have two salmon stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a great bumble bee story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went looking for a Bigfoot story but didn&#8217;t find one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want a fox story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting in OTA country and I overheard a drunken conversation between three OTAs about their encounters with bats, as in the flying mammals, and not the experience of being beat senseless with a baseball bat in a drunken brawl of some kind. One story was about hitting a bat with a bus. Another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7326,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions\/7326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}