{"id":13766,"date":"2016-03-07T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2016-03-07T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:57:13","slug":"fire-department-rescues-raccoon-sleeping-on-light-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13766","title":{"rendered":"Fire department rescues raccoon sleeping on light pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>See the Austin Fire Department\u2019s original post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/national-content\/fire-department-rescues-raccoon-sleeping-on-light-pole\/145343527\" target=\"_blank\">HERE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">wsoctv.com<\/a>) \u2013<\/p>\n<p>How high does a raccoon have to climb to get a little peace? Higher than the top of a light pole apparently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AustinFireDepartment\/posts\/1066886570045481\">The Austin Fire Department\u00a0took on an unusual rescue mission<\/a>\u00a0Friday\u00a0when it received a call alerting them to a\u00a0wayward raccoon who\u00a0found himself the perfect spot for a nap atop a light pole along Highway 71.<\/p>\n<p>The caller expressed concern that the raccoon might fall into traffic and cause an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters Dean Murphy and Chelsea Caloia climbed to the raccoon, who looked less comfortable than a bird in a nest, netted him and safely returned him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The raccoon was then given to Animal Control and taken to a safer location.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the Austin Fire Department\u2019s original post\u00a0HERE\u203a\u203a (wsoctv.com) \u2013 How high does a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13768,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/13768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}