{"id":486,"date":"2004-02-02T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=486"},"modified":"2004-02-02T20:08:51","modified_gmt":"2004-02-02T23:08:51","slug":"where-did-that-groundhog-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Where did that groundhog go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>nd today, Shubenacedie Sam, Nova Scotia&#8217;s groundhog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/stories\/2004\/02\/02\/groundhogday040202\">decided that Spring is right around the corner<\/a>. Which goes against the predictions made by his American counterparts, who all think Spring is still 6 weeks away. Nova Scotians apparently don&#8217;t trust their own groundhog:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&#8220;Sue Penney, an education co-ordinator at Nova Scotia&#8217;s Shubenacadie Wildlife Park, said she doubts Sam is right even half the time.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, I was actually confronted with a wild groundhog: not knowing what it exactly was (since I&#8217;m European) the only thing I remember exclaiming was &#8216;Look a &#8230;.<em>groundhog<\/em>?&#8217;. Quite an appropriate word for an animal, I would say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And today, Shubenacedie Sam, Nova Scotia&#8217;s groundhog decided that Spring is right around the corner. Which goes against the predictions made by his American counterparts, who all think Spring is still 6 weeks away. Nova Scotians apparently don&#8217;t trust their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}