{"id":9061,"date":"2015-04-02T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T05:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2015-02-28T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:49:42","slug":"atozchallenge-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9061","title":{"rendered":"#AtoZChallenge &#8211; Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NGdzt_ZU658\/VMackuKnFJI\/AAAAAAAARJw\/kQAZ8TZnm8o\/s1600\/B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NGdzt_ZU658\/VMackuKnFJI\/AAAAAAAARJw\/kQAZ8TZnm8o\/s1600\/B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Badgers are short-legged, nocturnal omnivores that belong to the same family as otters, polecats, weasels and wolverines.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Eurasian badgers (like the one pictured below) can tip the scales at 40 pounds!<\/p>\n<p>Badgers live in burrows called setts and many have been culled in Europe and the United Kingdom to prevent the spread of rabies and bovine TB.<\/p>\n<p>They are fierce and will go to great extents to protect themselves and their young but can be tamed as kept as pets.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/10\/Badger-badger.jpg\/512px-Badger-badger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/10\/Badger-badger.jpg\/512px-Badger-badger.jpg\" alt=\"badger\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By BadgerHero (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badgers are short-legged, nocturnal omnivores that belong to the same family as otters, polecats, weasels and wolverines. Some of the Eurasian badgers (like the one pictured below) can tip the scales at 40 pounds! Badgers live in burrows called setts and many have been culled in Europe and the United Kingdom to prevent the spread &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#AtoZChallenge &#8211; Badger<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[396,623,635],"tags":[1070,636,637],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atozchallenge","category-animals","category-badger","tag-atozchallenge","tag-b","tag-badger"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>#AtoZChallenge - Badger - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"#AtoZChallenge - B is for Badger\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9061\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#AtoZChallenge - Badger - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"#AtoZChallenge - B is for Badger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9061\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-02T05:01:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NGdzt_ZU658\/VMackuKnFJI\/AAAAAAAARJw\/kQAZ8TZnm8o\/s1600\/B.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Melanie\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Melanie\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/?p=9061#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/?p=9061\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Melanie\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fc1dc45dd87a15ec9c0044a4fe9cd612\"},\"headline\":\"#AtoZChallenge &#8211; 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