{"id":2233,"date":"2010-09-28T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T22:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2010-09-28T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T22:11:03","slug":"fixing-the-fence-a-bit-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/fixing-the-fence-a-bit-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the fence a bit too late&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lost our favorite and prettiest koi&#8212;the smallest&#8212;to a predator. I found a track I&#8217;m pretty sure was a raccoon in the mud from the drain near a break in the gate. We&#8217;re so upset. She was gorgeous, and ate from your hand. And the butterfly-fins are just a little less agile in the water. We have ample cover for them, and we lost no others, but I spent some time today repairing a sprung board in the gate: we&#8217;ve tried screws, glue, and all sorts of fixes, and it keeps coming loose: this time I got a metal-bit and got a bolt all the way through it, with a washer to hold the bolt head from working through. I also laced the area with a noxious mix of pepper oil powder and yes, coyote urine powder. And we&#8217;re filling in under the fence with gravel. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nature. You can&#8217;t complain. But you can make the fences better and put up a &#8216;no visitors&#8217; sign in raccoon-ish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost our favorite and prettiest koi&#8212;the smallest&#8212;to a predator. I found a track I&#8217;m pretty sure was a raccoon in the mud from the drain near a break in the gate. We&#8217;re so upset. She was gorgeous, and ate from your hand. And the butterfly-fins are just a little less agile in the water. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}