{"id":3256,"date":"2009-05-07T07:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2009-05-01T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T17:10:06","slug":"adopt-a-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"Adopt a Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cleobatra.jpg\" alt=\"Cleobatra\" title=\"Cleobatra\" width=\"137\" height=\"115\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The Bat World sanctuary has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batworld.org\/adopt_a_bat\/adopt_a_bat.html\">sponsorship program<\/a> that allows you to &#8220;adopt&#8221; a bat in need.  Sponsors receive a personalized adoption certificate, matted photo of their bat, the bat&#8217;s personal story, and lots of other neat items.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a wonderful gift for bat enthusiasts, as well as a good teaching tool for kids.  Many bats have long lifespans, and it&#8217;s great that this sanctuary offers long-term care for those that can&#8217;t make it in the wild.  (I also love the idea of proudly displaying photos of my &#8220;adoptees&#8221; on my desk at work.)<\/p>\n<p>Also be sure to check their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batworld.org\/bat_bazaar\/bat_bazaar.html\">Bat Bazaar<\/a> for merchandise featuring some heartbreakingly adorable photos of bats, and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batworld.org\/wall_of_shame\/wall_of_shame.html\">Wall of Shame<\/a> if you want to get indignant.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/\">Neatorama<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bat World sanctuary has a sponsorship program that allows you to &#8220;adopt&#8221; a bat in need. Sponsors receive a personalized adoption certificate, matted photo of their bat, the bat&#8217;s personal story, and lots of other neat items. This would be a wonderful gift for bat enthusiasts, as well as a good teaching tool for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}