{"id":9423,"date":"2018-04-25T00:07:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T04:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2018-04-24T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:09:09","slug":"didelphis-virginiana-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/didelphis-virginiana-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Didelphis virginiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9424\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ric048b5-possum-in-gloved-hand.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz the possum\" width=\"1028\" height=\"679\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ric048b5-possum-in-gloved-hand.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ric048b5-possum-in-gloved-hand-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ric048b5-possum-in-gloved-hand-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ric048b5-possum-in-gloved-hand-1024x676.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opossums have 50 teeth, more than any other North American land mammal.<br \/>\nOpossums have 13 nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle.<br \/>\nAn early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that &#8220;An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat. Under her belly she hath a bagge, wherein she lodgeth, carrieth, and sucketh her young.&#8221;&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia_opossum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[75,17,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","category-fauna","category-time-machine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423"}],"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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}