{"id":352,"date":"2009-10-01T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=352"},"modified":"2009-10-01T12:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:59:42","slug":"bye-bye-wimble-womble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye Wimble Womble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Lou discovered that our ferret, &#8220;Womble&#8221; had died in the night.  She&#8217;s been looking weak lately and old age was taking its toll on her.  Lou thinks she was about 11 years old.  We got her from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspca.org.uk\/\">RSPCA<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspcaexeter.org.uk\/\">Little Valley Animal Shelter<\/a> in June 2005 after seeing an advert on the BBC website.  Amazingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/devon\/content\/articles\/2005\/06\/23\/ferret_feature.shtml\">the article<\/a> is still online!<\/p>\n<p>At the time, we only really wanted a single polecat, Darcy, but when we saw him in a pen playing with Womble, (who was named Wimbledon by the shelter), we took them both.  Darcy is still going strong and lives in a big walk-in run along with Missy the ferret and Tommy the Polecat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Lou discovered that our ferret, &#8220;Womble&#8221; had died in the night. She&#8217;s been looking weak lately and old age was taking its toll on her. Lou thinks she was about 11 years old. We got her from the RSPCA&#8216;s Little Valley Animal Shelter in June 2005 after seeing an advert on the BBC&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=352\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bye bye Wimble Womble<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-st-mellion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}