{"id":9094,"date":"2015-04-21T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2015-04-19T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T11:06:54","slug":"atozchallenge-raccoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9094","title":{"rendered":"#AtoZChallenge &#8211; Raccoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WL2oPDzwxYQ\/VMacp_1XxXI\/AAAAAAAARLw\/r-oLP-Y8r4Q\/s1600\/R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WL2oPDzwxYQ\/VMacp_1XxXI\/AAAAAAAARLw\/r-oLP-Y8r4Q\/s1600\/R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The raccoon is a medium sized, North American mammal that can adapt readily to living conditions &#8211; whether in the wild or urban setting. This masked marauder is adept at getting lids off garbage cans and scavenging through the contents looking for tasty tidbits that we, humans, have tossed aside.<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9f\/Raccoon_climbing_in_tree_-_Cropped_and_color_corrected.jpg\/512px-Raccoon_climbing_in_tree_-_Cropped_and_color_corrected.jpg\" alt=\"raccoon\" width=\"512\" height=\"528\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Creator:Dave Menke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>One of these furry bandits made the news this past week when it climbed up a construction crane in the city of Toronto. You can read about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/raccoon-climbs-200-m-up-toronto-crane-1.2330137\" target=\"_blank\">CTV news<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The raccoon is a medium sized, North American mammal that can adapt readily to living conditions &#8211; whether in the wild or urban setting. This masked marauder is adept at getting lids off garbage cans and scavenging through the contents looking for tasty tidbits that we, humans, have tossed aside. One of these furry bandits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9094\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#AtoZChallenge &#8211; Raccoon<\/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":[396,623,654],"tags":[1070,655,656],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atozchallenge","category-animals","category-raccoon","tag-atozchallenge","tag-r","tag-raccoon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>#AtoZChallenge - Raccoon - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"#AtoZChallenge - R is for Raccoon\" \/>\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=9094\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#AtoZChallenge - Raccoon - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"#AtoZChallenge - R is for Raccoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9094\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-21T05:01:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WL2oPDzwxYQ\/VMacp_1XxXI\/AAAAAAAARLw\/r-oLP-Y8r4Q\/s1600\/R.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<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/?p=9094#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/?p=9094\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Melanie\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/melanierobertson-king.com\\\/wp02\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fc1dc45dd87a15ec9c0044a4fe9cd612\"},\"headline\":\"#AtoZChallenge &#8211; 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