{"id":21139,"date":"2012-09-21T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=139657e2a3968e453b34a16b801ccc37"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:29:50","slug":"part-ten-a-bestiary-virginia-opossum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/part-ten-a-bestiary-virginia-opossum\/","title":{"rendered":"Part Ten \u2018A Bestiary\u2019 ~ Virginia Opossum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is a remarkable beast whose marsupial ancestors roamed amongst dinosaurs. If you would like to learn more about this shy creature and see more portraits please visit Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens.<\/p>\n

You can see all ten installments to my ‘Bestiary’ here. My Bestiary is a number of antidotal tales spiced with facts about the beasts I have encounter on my land in Western Massachusetts. Preserving wildlife habitats is our obligation to all wild animals and future generations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Virginia Opossum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Virginia Opossum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Virginia Opossum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is a remarkable beast whose marsupial ancestors roamed amongst dinosaurs. If you would like to learn more about this shy creature and see more portraits please visit Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens. You can see all ten installments to my ‘Bestiary’ here. My Bestiary is a number of antidotal tales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":2145580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1155,1105],"class_list":["post-21139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-didelphis-virginiana","tag-virginia-opossum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}