{"id":834,"date":"2010-06-14T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=834"},"modified":"2010-06-14T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:51:01","slug":"our-wild-cousins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2010\/06\/14\/our-wild-cousins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Wild Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like where we live these days &#8211; there are lots and lots of our wild cousins living here as well.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"wild rabbit in the yard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/4699178577\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4019\/4699178577_511d421b3d.jpg\" alt=\"wild rabbit in the yard\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dad often sees our wild cousins outside at dawn\/dusk, but the light is usually too bad for him to take a picture (or our wild cousins will run off before he can get his camera &#8211; very smart of them!) But this time we had a relative who was out early enough for dad to take some pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"wild rabbit slinks away\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/4699809556\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4021\/4699809556_9001b5fff7.jpg\" alt=\"wild rabbit slinks away\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one was apparently just grazing on some grass. One of his friends was there earlier, but he chased him away. We&#8217;ve actually seen up to 5 wild rabbits (hares) out in the yard at one time, chasing one another. Dad, being a\u00a0 human, is never sure if they are just playing or if they are chasing one another to establish territory and rank. I can tell the difference, of course, but I&#8217;m keeping it a secret from dad. He needs to figure more stuff out on his own.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"wild rabbit dashes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/4699179029\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4028\/4699179029_deb95d9441.jpg\" alt=\"wild rabbit dashes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is probably one of my favorite pictures. Just look at that little guy&#8217;s legs! That&#8217;s pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Our wild cousins are always hanging around the house. I will sometimes tease dad and say they are part of a secret bunny army that&#8217;s gathering. He always gets kind of nervous when I say that. I think he really believes me! Scaring dad is fun.<\/p>\n<p>It is always nice to see fellow lagomorphs around. Do any of you have stories of being visited by our wild cousins to share?<\/p>\n<p>-Gus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2008\/02\/28\/dads-been-taking-pictures-again\/guss-newer-portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"212,158\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Gus&amp;#8217;s Newer Portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-128\" title=\"Gus's Newer Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus talks about the wild rabbits (hares) that live near his house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[10,72],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-pictures","tag-gus","tag-wild-bunnies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}