{"id":4728,"date":"2009-06-22T23:35:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2009-06-23T00:24:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T06:24:32","slug":"star-wars-action-figures-and-chipmunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=4728","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Action Figures and Chipmunks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/chrismcveigh.com\/\">Chris McVeigh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Wars<\/em> spills into the chipmunk universe!<\/p>\n<p>The critters you see in <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/powerpig\/sets\/72157607996040207\/\">these pics<\/a> are wild chipmunks that live in my folk&#8217;s backyard. Using a few simple techniques, I was able to get them to socialize with us on a regular basis (and certain chipmunks would even come to the yard when I whistled.) Each of them were quite comical and very easy to get along with, as you can probably tell from these pictures.<\/p>\n<p>And in case there is any doubt, I want to assure you that these pictures are real and not clever composites made in Photoshop. Chipmunks can be very easy to get along with, once you&#8217;ve taken the time to befriend them. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Chris&#8217; Flickr Photostreams:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/powerpig\/\">flickr.com\/photos\/powerpig\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/powerpigsetups\/\">flickr.com\/photos\/powerpigsetups\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Chris on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ActionFigured\/\">ActionFigured<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured Articles at StarWars.com:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starwarsblog.starwars.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/chipmunk-trooper\/\">Chipmunk Trooper Whisperer<\/a> (October 14, 2008)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starwarsblog.starwars.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/06\/chewie-meets-chipmunk\/\">Chewie Meets Chipmunk<\/a> (May 6, 2009)<\/p>\n<p>Article at Telegraph.co.uk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/howaboutthat\/5558770\/Star-Wars-figures-and-chipmunks-by-Chris-McVeigh.html\"><em>Star Wars<\/em> figures and chipmunks by Chris McVeigh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Chris McVeigh: Star Wars spills into the chipmunk universe! The critters you see in these pics are wild chipmunks that live in my folk&#8217;s backyard. Using a few simple techniques, I was able to get them to socialize with us on a regular basis (and certain chipmunks would even come to the yard when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=4728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars Action Figures and Chipmunks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-films","category-merchandise","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}