{"id":3288,"date":"2016-04-01T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T03:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:28:19","slug":"squirrels-of-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/squirrels-of-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrels of Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Rachael Jackson\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Finding the campus empty of interesting people to interview for Humans of Western, the Journal turned to Ronnie Squeaker, local squirrel for a fresh take on life at Western.<\/p>\n<p>Squeaker:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I didn\u2019t really know what I wanted to do with my life before moving here a year ago. Seeing all the young college kids sorting out their lives and finding a direction ignited something in myself. I realized that I wanted to be a squirrel of the world. The only thing holding me back is the sad fact that Squirrel School isn\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n<p>I was in a pretty dark place, trying to figure out how to pay for school when I met Mister [\u201cFuzzball\u201d] Malone. He set me up with honest work hassling the neighborhood dogs. I knew all about the heroin business. It\u2019s nuts to think about, but in most college towns the heroin trade is dealt by squirrels. Seeing Malone go down really hit me hard, but hey, I still got my job. I still got my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding the campus empty of interesting people to interview for Humans of Western, the Journal turned to Ronnie Squeaker, local squirrel for a fresh take on life at Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":"saragerrick","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25486,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/25486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}