{"id":2696,"date":"2011-07-07T21:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2011-07-07T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T06:21:42","slug":"green-wolves-big-orange-sheep-el-beaver-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/07\/07\/green-wolves-big-orange-sheep-el-beaver-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Wolves, Big Orange Sheep, &#038; El Beaver&#8211;Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/elBeaver.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"elBeaver\" width=\"294\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/elBeaver.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/elBeaver-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>From the Rocky Mountain Dept. of Wildlife:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Liggetts&#8217; neighbor has a ratty wooden trailer hand-painted with the words &#8220;Green Wolf Recycling.&#8221; Whenever it&#8217;s missing we tell the boys that it&#8217;s off to pick up some cans. &#8220;Yeah, and some green wolves!&#8221; notes Finn.\n<\/li>\n<li>Years ago in Death Valley, a salty old guy with the voice of <em>Sling Blade<\/em> told us about bighorn sheep in the area. My friend, struggling to understand, asked, &#8220;Did you say, &#8216;Big Orange Sheep&#8217;?&#8221; As we see sheep-crossing signs in this area, we love to stay on the lookout for &#8220;big orange sheep&#8221;!\n<\/li>\n<li>With the boys having started Spanish immersion, we&#8217;ve been trying to imagine how their animal buddies Leo &#038; Ollie would sound in Spanish. We&#8217;ve jokingly decided they&#8217;d say &#8220;El roar!&#8221; and &#8220;El hoo!&#8221; Patrick &#038; Charlie got a kick out of this, but they really loved helping coin &#8220;El beaver!,&#8221; the &#8220;Spanish&#8221; utterance of their stuffed otter. Now imagine four little dudes running around and randomly yelling &#8220;El beaver!!,&#8221; totally cracking one another up. As Patrick says, &#8220;It&#8217;s laughing gas!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bonus animal bit: Today on the train Finn informed me out of the blue, &#8220;Dad-O, if a we had a monkey who liked chips, he&#8217;d be a chip-monk!&#8221; Right on, little guy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rocky Mountain Dept. of Wildlife: The Liggetts&#8217; neighbor has a ratty wooden trailer hand-painted with the words &#8220;Green Wolf Recycling.&#8221; Whenever it&#8217;s missing we tell the boys that it&#8217;s off to pick up some cans. &#8220;Yeah, and some green wolves!&#8221; notes Finn. Years ago in Death Valley, a salty old guy with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babyslang","category-july-fourth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}