{"id":399,"date":"2004-07-03T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/07\/03\/walking-towards-death\/"},"modified":"2004-07-03T16:07:51","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T20:07:51","slug":"walking-towards-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/07\/03\/walking-towards-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Towards Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a537'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Matt and I were walking through the Harvard Law School campus today on our way to pick up a rental car to bring Dusty to training in the woods. As we we walked by Langdell Library, we ran across this:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/snarl\/deadsquirrel3.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P>It was the strangest thing. I&#8217;ve always wondered whether animals every die of natural causes, or whether they always get killed by cars or other predators. But this little squirrel appeared injury free. In fact, you can&#8217;t tell from the angle of this photo, but he was laying in a little crevice in the ground that fit him perfectly. It was as if he laid down to die specifically in that spot. Sad. I want to know how this death transpired. What brought him to that spot? <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Anyway, the next picture is of Matt. I think he looks adorable in it (especially since he hates being anywhere near nature. This was also on the Harvard Campus. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/snarl\/Mattcloseup040703.jpg\" height=\"493\" width=\"395\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/P><br \/>\n<P>However, I want you to look closely at the photo. All around Matt there is plush green life. Yet with all of that life around him, he manages to stand behind the single dead leaf on the entire tree. How does he do that?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt and I were walking through the Harvard Law School campus today on our way to pick up a rental car to bring Dusty to training in the woods. As we we walked by Langdell Library, we ran across this: It was the strangest thing. I&#8217;ve always wondered whether animals every die of natural causes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}