{"id":230,"date":"2012-03-26T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2012-03-27T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T19:09:48","slug":"groundhog-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/230","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"25\" height=\"30\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; Has a groundhog ever been struck by lightning? <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from\u00a0Perry Broz of  Salina KS<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"30\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;No and it never will, either!  Groundhogs are almost entirely made of neutrinos, small sub-atomic particles that repel lightning and, coincidentally, chiggers.   In fact, a groundhog&#8217;s idea of a good time is to go golfing during an electrical storm, standing in the tall grass of the rough and waving a nine iron in the air.  If I were you, I wouldn&#8217;t waste my time envying groundhogs for their immunity.  They have a brain the size of a pea and subsist on a diet of worms, roots and dirt.  Walk a mile in a groundhog&#8217;s shoes and then see if you can let this groundhog envy thing go.  And let me know how you&#8217;re doing.  Dr. Science cares.  <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Has a groundhog ever been struck by lightning? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/230\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}