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That was the title of a post that I wrote yesterday evening on my other blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wish that I could think of some cool animistic perspective to take, but\u00a0 cannot. When you are trying to save one critter, you kill others. I think that is called “being in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That was the title of a post that I wrote yesterday evening on my other blog. I wish that I could think of some cool animistic perspective to take, but\u00a0 cannot. When you are trying to save one critter, you kill others. I think that is called “being in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-PF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=106","url_meta":{"origin":3203,"position":0},"title":"Think your look is unique?\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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