{"id":42982,"date":"2025-11-22T02:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42982"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:45:34","slug":"cuter-and-closer-raccoons-may-be-on-their-way-to-becoming-americas-next-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42982","title":{"rendered":"Cuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America&#8217;s next pet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/e4c6\/live\/dd0af140-c65f-11f0-8896-e9b6ea3ac435.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"150\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of early domestication, researchers say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1j8j48e5z2o\">Cuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America&#8217;s next pet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[445,604],"class_list":["post-42982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-pets","tag-trash-pandas","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42984,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42982\/revisions\/42984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}