{"id":3450,"date":"2026-10-31T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2026-10-31T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:22:10","slug":"unqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/31\/unqualified\/","title":{"rendered":"unqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was out in the backyard racking leaves and heard a thump and a crash behind me. I turned around as something thrashing in a file of leaves next to the shed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I approached, carefully, rake in hand and saw that it was a fat gray raccoon. It was lying on its back and it was twitching and thrashing. It had clearly fallen out of a tree, hit the roof of the shed, and then fell to the ground.  I kept back and tried to figure out what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it was dying, should I help it along? It was hurt, did I have a way to help it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realized I was woefully unequipted to really do any good.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stayed back and it finally settled down.  It sat up a bit and we made eye contact and regarded each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned away and went back to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a few minutes, I turned back and it was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it was hurt from the fall, it wasn&#8217;t badly.   I thought it might have tried to go into the open door of the shed, but when I investigated it was empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a strange encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out in the backyard racking leaves and heard a thump and a crash behind me. I turned around as something thrashing in a file of leaves next to the shed. I approached, carefully, rake in hand and saw that it was a fat gray raccoon. It was lying on its back and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}