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<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carefully and oh-so-slowly sat down to within three feet of the gopher that’s been ravaging our backyard lately. Since I would never consider hurting it I only took shots at it of the photography kind. Amazing are those choppers it has to constantly keep wearing down. They look like extended corn kernels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-2XY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11865,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/05\/same-gopher-new-hole\/","url_meta":{"origin":11406,"position":0},"title":"Same Gopher, New Hole","date":"March 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"While gardening today (and by gardening I mean back-breaking, glistening-muscular-Fabio-torso preparation for a big, double palm tree replanting tomorrow or Wednesday) I was revisited by my old friend, the gopher. He didn't stick around as long this time, but I was able to get close enough to get two shots.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fauna"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Gopher-03-05-12-lo-res-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11490,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/02\/10\/gopher-reunion\/","url_meta":{"origin":11406,"position":1},"title":"Gopher Reunion","date":"February 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Met up again with the same gopher I took pictures of four days ago. I was counting on it's bad eyesight and occasional longer underground stays to sneak in between some large pots in the garden to get about two feet away from the hole. This time I sat and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fauna"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Gopher01-02-10-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12262,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/02\/cats-day-three\/","url_meta":{"origin":11406,"position":2},"title":"Cats – Day Three","date":"April 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Normally the neighbors' cats enjoy watching a good bird show outside one of the bedroom windows. Keeps 'em busy for hours. Today though they had a special treat in store. A gopher (quite possibly the same one that's been burrowing in our backyard until recently) scored a jackpot by digging\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fauna"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2421,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/10\/dinner-and-a-pool\/","url_meta":{"origin":11406,"position":3},"title":"Dinner And A Pool","date":"October 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"After our trip to Cabrillo\u00a0we drove down to Chula Vista, stopping first to pick up some chicken and potatoes, to swim and have dinner with the Tapias and the Zumayas. Later Rodrigo and I handed over some nest-building materials of leaves and stalks from a tomato plant directly to a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Pool-Party01-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12927,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/13\/surprise-visit\/","url_meta":{"origin":11406,"position":4},"title":"Surprise Visit","date":"May 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a really nice surprise visit this Mother's Day from my best friends Sylvia and Rodrigo, who brought Lilo and Stitch with them to sniff and run around the backyard a bit. They were thoughtful enough to bring us milkshakes from Jack-In-The-Box since I couldn't chew anything solid because of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Friends"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Tapias-Visit-05-13-12-lo-res-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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