{"id":22072,"date":"2017-04-06T05:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=22072"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:24:33","slug":"south-philly-varmint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/06\/south-philly-varmint\/","title":{"rendered":"South Philly Varmint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/06\/south-philly-varmint\/possum1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum1.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Possum1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum1.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22073\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum1.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Joe calls me after he&#8217;s left for work, it means one of two things &#8211; he&#8217;s forgot something or he&#8217;s seen something crazy on his way to work. Such was the case yesterday morning when he spotted this fellow hanging about 7 feet from the ground on a fence in between 13th and\u00a0 Broad on Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/06\/south-philly-varmint\/possum2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum2.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Possum2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum2.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22074\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum2.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Possum2.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Joe calls me after he&#8217;s left for work, it means one of two things &#8211; he&#8217;s forgot something or he&#8217;s seen something crazy on his way to work. Such was the case yesterday morning when he spotted this fellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/04\/06\/south-philly-varmint\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,3809],"tags":[476,4123,4119,2513,5,354,3669,4122,105,477,480,4121,4120],"class_list":["post-22072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-south-philly-safari","tag-city","tag-climb","tag-critter","tag-fence","tag-joe-williams","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-possum","tag-south-philly","tag-urban","tag-usa","tag-varmint","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5K0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21095,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/09\/14\/sun-sets-on-south-philly\/","url_meta":{"origin":22072,"position":0},"title":"Sun Sets on South Philly","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Summer is drawing to a close, and we're starting to get these gorgeous sunsets.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sun Sets on South Philly","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8047\/29024760394_b308a3650e_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8047\/29024760394_b308a3650e_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8047\/29024760394_b308a3650e_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21169,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/12\/south-philly-scene\/","url_meta":{"origin":22072,"position":1},"title":"South Philly Scene","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Outside of Bok Vocational School at 1901 South 9th Street in South Philadelphia.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Philadelphia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Philadelphia","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/philadelphia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Outside of Bok","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8131\/29926072270_0cb1a1b852_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8131\/29926072270_0cb1a1b852_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8131\/29926072270_0cb1a1b852_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36680,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/23\/south-philly-jack-o-lantern\/","url_meta":{"origin":22072,"position":2},"title":"South Philly Jack O&#8217; Lantern","author":"Joe","date":"October 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I think the squirrels added to the carving of this menacing Jack O' Lantern which I spotted on a stoop of a South Philadelphia rowhouse. 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