{"id":7747,"date":"2024-04-27T02:38:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2024-04-27T02:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T06:38:09","slug":"april-17th-was-bat-appreciation-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/?p=7747","title":{"rendered":"April 17th was Bat Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Many years ago, in my Belmar house, after lights were turned off at night, we found that we had a small bat flying around. When I turned the lights on, he (or she) became immobilized and I was able to gather him up in a towel and take him outside and let him fly away,<br \/>\nEditor.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/international-bat-appreciation-day-the-crucial-role-of-bats-in-nature\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bat20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bat20.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bat20-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/international-bat-appreciation-day-the-crucial-role-of-bats-in-nature\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/batarticle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/batarticle.jpg 872w, https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/batarticle-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/batarticle-768x277.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/waves6wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"9\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/waves6wide.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/waves6wide-300x8.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/?p=6424\">Click here for my post from almost two years ago<br \/>\nabout how Wind Turbines are killing Bats.<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, in my Belmar house, after lights were turned off at night, we found that we had a small bat flying around. When I turned the lights on, he (or she) became immobilized and I was able to gather him up in a towel and take him outside and let him fly away, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebelmarblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}