{"id":902,"date":"2010-02-02T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:51:14","slug":"it-prairie-dog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/it-prairie-dog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s &#8220;Prairie Dog&#8221; Day!&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;So says <strong>Prairie Dog Bob<\/strong>, and, he did <strong>NOT<\/strong> see his shadow, so, it&#8217;s going to be an early <strong>Spring<\/strong>&#8230;&#8230;  <strong>PDB<\/strong> says that the term <strong>&#8220;Ground Hog&#8221;<\/strong> is a derogatory slang term for the noble, intelligent, handsome, and strong <strong>Prairie Dog<\/strong>&#8230;..  Don&#8217;t ever call <strong>PDB<\/strong> a <strong>&#8220;Terra Hog&#8221;<\/strong>, at least, not in his presence&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PD Bob<\/strong> and I watched that, as <strong>PDB<\/strong> called him, &#8220;stupid, dumb, and over-rated <strong>#%^&#038;#@ Hog<\/strong>&#8221; in <em>Poxi<\/em><strong>-whatever-<\/strong><em>tony<\/em>,<em> PA<\/em> say that he saw his shadow meaning six more weeks of Winter&#8230;..  Our local weatherman pointed out that it was impossible for him to see his shadow as it was cloudy and snowy all the way from <strong>Maine<\/strong> to <strong>Oklahoma<\/strong>&#8230;..  The shadow he saw was from all the media lights&#8230;..  <strong>DuuH<\/strong>&#8230;..  <em>No wonder he sees his shadow every year!<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;  <strong>PD Bob<\/strong> immediately started planning a mission to visit this <strong>&#8220;Rat in a Prairie Dog suit&#8221;<\/strong> and straighten him out horizontally&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, dig out your copy of <strong>&#8220;Ground Hog Day&#8221;<\/strong> (sorry, <strong>PDB<\/strong>, but that is the name of the movie), and give it a watch&#8230;&#8230;  I&#8217;ve got <strong>PDB<\/strong> looking for my copy right now&#8230;&#8230;  He&#8217;s doing it, but, keeping mumbling something about animal profiling, and how can anyone call a <strong>PD &#8220;Dog&#8221;<\/strong> a <strong>G &#8220;Hog&#8221;<\/strong>?&#8230;.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;So says Prairie Dog Bob, and, he did NOT see his shadow, so, it&#8217;s going to be an early Spring&#8230;&#8230; PDB says that the term &#8220;Ground Hog&#8221; is a derogatory slang term for the noble, intelligent, handsome, and strong Prairie Dog&#8230;.. Don&#8217;t ever call PDB a &#8220;Terra Hog&#8221;, at least, not in his presence&#8230;&#8230; PD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}