{"id":1912,"date":"2024-01-04T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T21:51:43","slug":"ew-a-dead-shrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2024\/01\/04\/ew-a-dead-shrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Ew! A dead shrew!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(No, there is no picture to go with this post &#8211; be glad!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed that my shower drain was backing up badly all of a sudden, which usually means that there is hair in it.  But when I got a stick (we use fancy tools here) and tried to get the hair out, it smelled nasty and it seemed like there were eyes and a nose.  I tried for a bit, but then got creeped out and decided to call the plumber.  I knew that if I called the plumber, he would come this evening and he would charge me $2.  I figured that it really must just be hair, but the creepiness factor was worth $2 to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, yes, he came this evening and charged me $2.  And after finding some random garbage wire (again, we use fancy tools here) and doing a bit of digging, he came out with something that definitely used to be an animal, with guts dangling.  We figured it was probably a shrew, which looks like a mouse but has a short tail and long nose, since there are lots of those around here.  I have no idea how it got in, but I\u02bcm so glad that I didn\u02bct have to be the one to get it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, there are some things that are quite handy here &#8211; I don\u02bct think you could call a plumber and ask him to do a housecall for $2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(No, there is no picture to go with this post &#8211; be glad!) I noticed that my shower drain was backing up badly all of a sudden, which usually means that there is hair in it. But when I got a stick (we use fancy tools here) and tried to get the hair out, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}