{"id":1141,"date":"2011-10-20T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:13","slug":"kangaroo-rat-caravan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2011\/10\/kangaroo-rat-caravan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo Rat Caravan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent roadtrip to Colorado my wife and I stopped to observe some petroglyphs in the middle of Nevada. \u00a0While visiting this site a kangaroo rat came a-bouncing up to my slightly startled wife. She was rather taken with the fellow. \u00a0It should be said in the name of preserving the kangaroo rat&#8217;s reputation that it is a rodent with no formal relation to actual rats (not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that). \u00a0They can bounce 7 to 8 feet and also store food in the pouches in their cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been continuing to formulate and illustrate new children&#8217;s book characters and perhaps this traveling troupe might make an appearance in the Three Friends story I&#8217;m working on &#8211; or perhaps they&#8217;ll get a story of their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/KangarooRatWagon.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1141]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1142\" title=\"KangarooRatWagon\" src=\"http:\/\/invisiblemanmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/KangarooRatWagon.jpg\" alt=\"Kangaroo Rat Caravan\" width=\"640\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/KangarooRatWagon.jpg 640w, http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/KangarooRatWagon-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent roadtrip to Colorado my wife and I stopped to observe some petroglyphs in the middle of Nevada. \u00a0While visiting this site a kangaroo rat came a-bouncing up to my slightly startled wife. She was rather taken with the fellow. \u00a0It should be said in the name of preserving the kangaroo rat&#8217;s reputation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}