{"id":1274,"date":"2009-04-06T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T02:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2009-04-06T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T02:20:36","slug":"the-return-of-todd-the-possum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/04\/06\/the-return-of-todd-the-possum\/","title":{"rendered":"The triumphant and unexpected return of Todd the Possum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, kids!  It&#8217;s Todd the Possum!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q2-09\/todd.jpg\" alt=\"Todd the Possum\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2007\/12\/05\/mission-impossumble\/\">You don&#8217;t remember Todd the Possum?<\/a>  Todd is a buddy of Xena&#8217;s.  During cold weather he wanders onto the back deck (well, not so much wanders as carts his portly possum butt up a little flight of stairs onto the deck) and eats whatever dog food Xena has left on the deck.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this, in all likelihood, is not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2007\/12\/02\/playing-possum\/\">the original Todd<\/a>.  But it was definitely a decent sized possum, and Xena was definitely not fussed about him being up there.  To my total amazement, after I snapped this blurry, last-known-photo-of-Bigfoot shot through a glass door that really needs cleaning, <strong>a second possum appeared<\/strong>.  At this juncture, even if Xena wasn&#8217;t going to do anything to scare them off, I opened the back door slightly.<\/p>\n<p><em>And they stood there and looked at me.<\/em>  Little bastards.<\/p>\n<p>When I stepped out onto the deck, then they scattered.  Obviously simply putting in an appearance wasn&#8217;t going to cut it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for helping to feed all the neighborhood possums, Xena. Thanks a lot.  Oh, the joys of life out in the boonies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, kids! It&#8217;s Todd the Possum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","tag-todd-the-possum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}