{"id":4844,"date":"2013-05-16T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T22:24:15","slug":"marmota-monax-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/marmota-monax-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marmota monax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A011056-groundhog-volvo.jpg\" alt=\"official rodent of CHO\"><br \/>\nThe groundhog is the largest sciurid in its geographical range, typically measuring 40 to 65 cm (16 to 26 in) long (including a 15\u00a0cm (6\u00a0in) tail) and weighing 2 to 4 kg (4 to 9 lb). In areas with fewer natural predators and large amounts of alfalfa, groundhogs can grow to 80\u00a0cm (30\u00a0in) and 14\u00a0kg (31\u00a0lb). Groundhogs are well adapted for digging, with short but powerful limbs and curved, thick claws. Unlike other sciurids, the groundhog&#8217;s spine is curved, more like that of a mole, and the tail is comparably shorter as well\u2014only about one-fourth of body length. Suited to their temperate habitat, groundhogs are covered with two coats of fur: a dense grey undercoat and a longer coat of banded guard hairs that gives the groundhog its distinctive &#8220;frosted&#8221; appearance.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groundhog\">wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lets make the groundhog the &#8220;official rodent&#8221; of Charlottesville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The groundhog is the largest sciurid in its geographical range, typically measuring 40 to 65 cm (16 to 26 in) long (including a 15\u00a0cm (6\u00a0in) tail) and weighing 2 to 4 kg (4 to 9 lb). In areas with fewer natural predators and large amounts of alfalfa, groundhogs can grow to 80\u00a0cm (30\u00a0in) and 14\u00a0kg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/marmota-monax-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marmota monax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}