{"id":6480,"date":"2011-10-30T11:55:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2011-10-30T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:55:52","slug":"the-mcelroy-zoo-heres-why-merlin-enjoys-autumn-and-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=6480","title":{"rendered":"THE McELROY ZOO: Here&#8217;s why Merlin enjoys autumn and spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Merlin-looking-out-window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6481\" title=\"Merlin looking out window\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Merlin-looking-out-window.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Merlin-looking-out-window.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Merlin-looking-out-window-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merlin&#8217;s favorite times of the year are the fall and spring, simply because that&#8217;s when windows can be open and he can watch (and smell) the birds and squirrels that he&#8217;d like to be outside chasing. Here, he peers intently at the back yard through the open window right next to my desk earlier this week.\u00a0<a title=\"THE McELROY ZOO: Meet Merlin, the wizard who almost disappeared\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=4025\" target=\"_blank\">Merlin is the one who disappeared for a couple of days<\/a> after an escape through a screen about two years ago. He doesn&#8217;t seem to eager to leave the comforts of home behind after that adventure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin&#8217;s favorite times of the year are the fall and spring, simply because that&#8217;s when windows can be open and he can watch (and smell) the birds and squirrels that he&#8217;d like to be outside chasing. Here, he peers intently at the back yard through the open window right next to my desk earlier this <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=6480\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-1Gw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}