{"id":4298,"date":"2009-01-11T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/01\/11\/people-acting-squirrelly\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T09:43:09","slug":"people-acting-squirrelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/people-acting-squirrelly\/","title":{"rendered":"People acting squirrelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"6\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-dc95b4f5ab152bcaec72cea6b8441d3d-squirrel_suit.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-dc95b4f5ab152bcaec72cea6b8441d3d-squirrel_suit.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/form>\n<p>So the other day, my sister and brother in-law were visiting from California, and at one point got talking about these people who were dressing in &#8220;squirrel suits&#8221; and jumping off buildings and some of the cliffs out there.<\/p>\n<p>So, I imagined what I would think most people imagined.  Crazy people dressing up as giant squirrels (maybe some of them dressed up as chipmunks or rabbits or whatever) and climbing around and jumping off things. Like squirrels do.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently they were talking about something else.  Something that you have to be a bit squirrelly to do, but not exactly squirrel-looking.  They were talking about this:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ttz5oPpF1Js&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day, my sister and brother in-law were visiting from California, and at one point got talking about these people who were dressing in &#8220;squirrel suits&#8221; and jumping off buildings and some of the cliffs out there. So, I imagined what I would think most people imagined. Crazy people dressing up as giant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/people-acting-squirrelly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People acting squirrelly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-17k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}