{"id":30517,"date":"2026-05-20T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/?p=30517"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:15:07","slug":"wiarton-willie-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wiarton-willie-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiarton Willie Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 10, the Town of South Bruce announced that Wiarton Willie passed away peacefully in his sleep.  No further details were forthcoming except that the town was immediately embarking on a search for a replacement albino groundhog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it has been a distressing decade for Wiarton and its groundhogs; feel free to review my past posts on the subject, no point in summarizing it all again so RIP Wiarton Willie; your last reveal was brilliant and; In my opinion, you carried the event in each of your 3 reveals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, the Town of South Bruce announced that Wiarton Willie passed away peacefully in his sleep. No further details were forthcoming except that the town was immediately embarking on a search for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-333","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30518,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30517\/revisions\/30518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}