{"id":1281,"date":"2012-10-02T11:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2013-02-27T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:13:01","slug":"spike-the-roadrunner-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Spike the Roadrunner (an update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC09837\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 2px 0px 5px 10px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC09837\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09837.jpg\" width=\"528\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a>I wrote about Spike the Roadrunner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner\/\">a month ago<\/a> and here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little update with <a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\">a few new photos<\/a> (of the hundreds I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very photogenic, as you can see).<\/p>\n<p>We had quite a scare a couple of weeks ago. Mer had fed Spike his morning mouse. We were standing within arm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reach of Spike, who was perched on the wall between us and the neighbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yard. Suddenly, Spooky the black cat leapt from the far side of the wall and landed on Spike. It was as startling as any horror movie. Spike squawked, Mer shrieked, and I exclaimed, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Son of a Bitch!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to my own great surprise. Spike managed to fly off. Spooky disappeared \u00e2\u20ac\u201c lucky for him, because I was stalking him brick in hand. Spike ran down the road toward Indian School and its traffic. We watched him run around the corner, so we knew he was probably OK but feared we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never see him again.<\/p>\n<p>To our great relief, Spike clattered for food from the rooftop the next morning. He looked a bit disheveled but uninjured. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t return every day or twice a day, as he used to, but we hope that means better chances for his survival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC09838\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC09838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09838.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sdrv.ms\/NGajGP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC09845\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC09845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09845.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about Spike the Roadrunner a month ago and here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little update with a few new photos (of the hundreds I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very photogenic, as you can see). We had quite a scare a couple of weeks ago. Mer had fed Spike his morning mouse. We were standing within arm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reach &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spike the Roadrunner (an update)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spike-the-roadrunner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}