{"id":14352,"date":"2018-02-20T03:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14352"},"modified":"2018-02-22T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:52:57","slug":"it-helps-if-youre-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/20\/it-helps-if-youre-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"It Helps If You&#8217;re Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least in Britain, if you&#8217;re cute they&#8217;ll build a highway for you &#8211; and size it for you, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/london-hedgehog-urban-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>Atlas Obscura<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d4\/Igel01.jpg\/330px-Igel01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"228\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hedgehog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"item-body-text-graf\"><span class=\"section-start-text\">If you happen to spot <\/span>a small hole in the bottom of a fence or brick wall in Barnes, a neighborhood in South West London, there\u2019s a good chance that you\u2019ve stumbled upon a hedgehog crossing, and that Michel Birkenwald is responsible for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"item-body-text-graf\">A jeweller by trade, Birkenwald has become one of London\u2019s most enthusiastic engineers of infrastructure for animals. He founded and self-financed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/barneshedgehogs\/\">Barnes Hedgehogs<\/a> around four years ago. The group drills the holes for free and generally advocates for the welfare of wild hedgehogs. Once Birkenwald has crafted a passage, he usually affixes a sign reading \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BdnJt6MlMRk\/?taken-by=barneshedgehogs\">Hedgehog Highway<\/a>,\u201d with the creature\u2019s spiky silhouette.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely an <em>Awwwwwwwwwwww<\/em> moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/london-hedgehog-urban-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And they have pictures<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least in Britain, if you&#8217;re cute they&#8217;ll build a highway for you &#8211; and size it for you, too. From Atlas Obscura: If you happen to spot a small hole in the bottom of a fence or brick wall in Barnes, a neighborhood in South West London, there\u2019s a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/20\/it-helps-if-youre-cute\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14381,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions\/14381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}