{"id":142,"date":"2007-05-31T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2013-12-02T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:29:13","slug":"thats-so-neat-thats-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/142","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s cool! \/ That&#8217;s gross!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/procserv\/47b7db10b3127cce84fdf5b1229e00000036108AYt2bRu1cs8\" width=\"424\" height=\"258\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/procserv\/47b7db10b3127cce84fd2728226e00000025108AYt2bRu1cs8\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As most of you who read this blog know, we homeschool our kids. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always homeschooled, this being our 6th year. There are several things that most all homeschoolers experience\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6reading chapter books to your kids, doing science experiments at the kitchen table, and raising all sorts of things from beans in paper cups to tadpoles in a tank. At the homeschool conference last week, Randy and I picked another \u00e2\u20ac\u0153homeschool \u00e2\u20ac\u201c gotta do it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d item. The owl pellet.<\/p>\n<p>You see, when an owl eats his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153meal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, there are parts of the animal that he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t digest. Fur and bones. His digestive system creates a pellet out of the undigested parts. He basically\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6uh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6coughs it up. There are companies that find, sterilize (how, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know!), and sell these pellets. Ours came with a bone identification chart. The girls and I spent about an hour dissecting this thing with toothpicks! (we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very high-tech) I have to admit\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it was fun! The bones are so tiny, and filled with fur. We found evidence of 2 rodents, including skulls, ribs, hips, legs, vertebrae, etc. At this point, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re either doing a google search for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153owl pellet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re nuts. lol\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you who read this blog know, we homeschool our kids. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always homeschooled, this being our 6th year. There are several things that most all homeschoolers experience\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6reading chapter books to your kids, doing science experiments at the kitchen table, and raising all sorts of things from beans in paper cups to tadpoles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}