{"id":538,"date":"2011-02-04T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=538"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:22:08","slug":"last-year-womble-this-year-darcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Last year Womble, this year Darcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=352\">Blogged about the death of our Ferret Womble<\/a>.  Today it&#8217;s the turn of her long-time partner Darcy.  Darcy was a polecat and always the wildest of our flock.  When visitors wanted to hold one, Darcy was the chap who stayed firmly in the pen or we&#8217;d have suffered the embarrassment of taking people to hospital for finger stitches.  Even Lou and I, who knew how to hold him, didn&#8217;t escape unscathed.  We&#8217;ve both had bitten fingers (and ears in my case) from the feisty one.  Despite the injuries, he was always a character and he&#8217;ll be sadly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I Blogged about the death of our Ferret Womble. Today it&#8217;s the turn of her long-time partner Darcy. Darcy was a polecat and always the wildest of our flock. When visitors wanted to hold one, Darcy was the chap who stayed firmly in the pen or we&#8217;d have suffered the embarrassment of taking&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=538\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last year Womble, this year Darcy<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-mellion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}