{"id":1426,"date":"2008-07-04T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/peter_rabbit\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T15:48:15","slug":"peter_rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/peter_rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunny who thinks my herb garden is his private preserve.  Peter is not just a daily visitor, he LIVES there.  I first realized he was around when the spinach I had planted early in the spring began to disappear.  I thought I&#8217;d find the time to put wire cages around the plants, to give them a chance to grow, but I forgot.  I was in the garden several weeks ago and discovered that Peter had eaten them right to the ground.  Maybe I&#8217;ll try for a fall spinach crop, complete with sirens and flashing lights and cages that slam down over the plants when something with a furry tail gets near.<br \/>\nI saw Peter checking out the basil one Sunday morning.  I wonder if he has Italian heritage, or whether he just fancied a little pesto to wash down the spinach.<br \/>\nYesterday, he was standing in the walkway near the oregano, calmly denuding what I think might have been an aster plant growing in the chat of the walk.  He chewed it off halfway down so that he didn&#8217;t have to manage the entire plant.<br \/>\nWhen I complained to a friend about this bunny with the huge appetite, he said&#8230;.&#8221;Think about what Farmer McGreggor would have done.&#8221;  Yeah, right!  Can you see me holding a gun???  Nah&#8230;.but cayenne pepper water sprayed on some of my plants isn&#8217;t a bad idea!  For those of you with similar problems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highcountrygardens.com\/library\/view\/article\/228\/\">here&#8217;s a list<\/a> of plants that are usually safe from bunnies.  Dear Husband, when we first moved here suggested that I be prepared to share half my crops with visiting animals.  I don&#8217;t mind a little sharing, but it ticks me off when they take it ALL!<br \/>\nI hope you&#8217;ve found ways to deal with the bunnies in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunny who thinks my herb garden is his private preserve. Peter is not just a daily visitor, he LIVES there. I first realized he was around when the spinach I had planted early in the spring began &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/peter_rabbit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}