{"id":78603,"date":"2024-10-04T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=78603"},"modified":"2024-10-04T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:32:33","slug":"hopeful-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/hopeful-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful Metaphor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78604 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/red-squirrel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/red-squirrel.png 900w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/red-squirrel-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/red-squirrel-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/red-squirrel-850x589.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"widget__headline h1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/news\/red-squirrels-grey-survival-aberdeen-scotland?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span class=\"widget__headline-text custom-post-headline\" data-type=\"text\">Britain&#8217;s native red squirrels beat out &#8216;invading&#8217; greys in fight for survival<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Native red squirrels are on the verge of a significant triumph in their long-standing struggle for survival against the grey squirrels in one of Scotland\u2019s major cities.<\/h2>\n<h2>A project has announced a &#8220;significant decline&#8221; in grey squirrels &#8211; which they say could be completely eradicated from Aberdeen &#8220;in the near future&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<h2>For decades, red squirrels struggled to establish themselves in the city, as thousands of grey squirrels held a stronghold there, serving as the last refuge for the non-native species north of Argyll and Tayside.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/news\/red-squirrels-grey-survival-aberdeen-scotland?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">RTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78444 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/White-Foreigners-Out.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/White-Foreigners-Out.jpg 474w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/White-Foreigners-Out-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78083 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/White-Lion-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/White-Lion-1.jpg 710w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/White-Lion-1-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s native red squirrels beat out &#8216;invading&#8217; greys in fight for survival &nbsp; Native red squirrels are on the verge of a significant triumph in their long-standing struggle for survival against the grey squirrels in one of Scotland\u2019s major cities. A project has announced a &#8220;significant decline&#8221; in grey squirrels &#8211; which they say could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14643,14588,5594,14200,4892,481,10031,482,9132,486,487,14620],"tags":[474,7806,18042,5803,18043,9564,488],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78605,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78603\/revisions\/78605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}