{"id":1285,"date":"2011-02-03T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/petting-the-mountain-lion\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T21:37:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T05:37:50","slug":"petting-the-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/petting-the-mountain-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Petting the Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hardnewsinc\/5414600224\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5172\/5414600224_cd5d55b98a.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hardnewsinc\/5414600224\/\">Petting the Cougar<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/hardnewsinc\/\">Wordyeti<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>This is one of a series of photos I&#8217;ve put up on Flickr showing the various exotic animals at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natureofwildworks.org\">The Nature of Wildworks, a rescue facility in Topanga Canyon<\/a>. More &amp; more of them keep accumulating, as people who had once had the means to collect &amp; keep exotic pets are falling victim to the Sub-prime Mortgage Meltdown here in Southern Cal.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, just as some hoodrats dump their pit bulls by the side of the freeway when they become inconvenient, a lot of these people are just bailing on these beautiful creatures. There are three mountain lions here, a half dozen other large cats (bobcat and civet &#8211; at least, I think the long-legged junior leopard is a civet cat), a silver wolf, a fennec fox, skunks (descented), hawks and coyotes.<\/p>\n<p>These folks need help. Watch this space &#8211; we&#8217;re going to try to help them expand their web presence and try to get more donations to expand into a larger facility where the animals have a little more legroom &amp; can have a better quality of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petting the Cougar, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This is one of a series of photos I&#8217;ve put up on Flickr showing the various exotic animals at The Nature of Wildworks, a rescue facility in Topanga Canyon. More &amp; more of them keep accumulating, as people who had once had the means to collect &amp; keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}