{"id":749,"date":"2013-01-26T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-01-26T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T07:12:29","slug":"jumping-joey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/jumping-joey\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping Joey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Roo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-750\" alt=\"Roo\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Roo-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Roo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Roo.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In a perfect start to Australia Day, I saw a young joey and its mum bouncing through the forest. This is the second time this week I have seen them, and both times, I have been able to keep Shorty from chasing them. She used to chase any roo she saw, but I have been able to distract her, or go the other way in the last few months when I have spotted any. I hope Mama Kanga feels safe enough to stay here, as I would love to have a resident roo. It was a different story when we planted the trees in 2009\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/16\/bagging-3000-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\">and they pulled out the first few rows<\/a>, but we bagged the trees rather than shooting the roos, which seems to be the usual treatment round here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a perfect start to Australia Day, I saw a young joey and its mum bouncing through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"closed","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":[13,10,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog","category-not-so-wildlife","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Roo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}