{"id":1697,"date":"2010-05-24T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:14:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:14:59","slug":"busy-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Busy Beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my sketchbook (drawn across the gutter; sorry).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BusyBeaver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1698\" title=\"BusyBeaver\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BusyBeaver.jpg\" alt=\"BusyBeaver\" width=\"455\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BusyBeaver.jpg 650w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BusyBeaver-140x300.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a Memorial Day weekend hike through beautiful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/prwi\/index.htm\">Prince William Forest Park<\/a> in Virginia a few years ago, we saw many tree stumps ending in chewed points,\u00a0surrounded by piles of wood chips,\u00a0indicating the presence of beavers. And when we reached the creek, we did see several beavers, as well as a substantial beaver dam. What I couldn\u2019t understand was why the stumps were so FAR from the water. A mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my sketchbook (drawn across the gutter; sorry). On a Memorial Day weekend hike through beautiful\u00a0Prince William Forest Park in Virginia a few years ago, we saw many tree stumps ending in chewed points,\u00a0surrounded by piles of wood chips,\u00a0indicating the presence of beavers. And when we reached the creek, we did see several beavers, as<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1697\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[91,17,77,92,3],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-beaver","tag-penink","tag-trees","tag-virginia","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}