{"id":2441,"date":"2010-06-06T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2014-07-14T23:31:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T03:31:33","slug":"the-ugly-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/the-ugly-american\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly American"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Basically a rodent, with a different tail. Flying rodents, that&#8217;s all they are. Good for nothing\u2014apart from shooting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/07\/dining\/07squirrel.html\" target=\"_blank\">pat\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/nutkinslaststand\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Rusty-Gordon.jpg\" alt=\"Ernie Gordon, children&#039;s author, feeds a red squirrel\" title=\"Ernie Gordon, children&#039;s author, feeds a red squirrel\" width=\"474\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2451\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Some people may find this equally true of red squirrels, but red squirrels have acquired a groundswell of support in the wake of their endangerment from aggression and squirrelpox thanks to the gray squirrel, a Victorian import from North America. Britain has adopted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.gov.uk\/greysquirrel\" target=\"_blank\">a policy of working to stem the tide of gray squirrels<\/a>\u2014which dramatically outnumber red squirrels, and have completely displaced the reds in most of England\u2014hoping that control will enable the reds to bounce back as they slowly develop resistance to squirrelpox.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/nutkinslaststand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nutkin&#8217;s Last Stand<\/a>, a POV documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically a rodent, with a different tail. Flying rodents, that&#8217;s all they are. Good for nothing\u2014apart from shooting. Well, and pat\u00e9. Some people may find this equally true of red squirrels, but red squirrels have acquired a groundswell of support in the wake of their endangerment from aggression and squirrelpox thanks to the gray squirrel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[546,851,1005,1136,1264],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-grey","tag-north-america","tag-red","tag-squirrels","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Dn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}