{"id":514,"date":"2016-08-09T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quick-newz.com\/large-rodents-roaming-rios-olympic-golf-course\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T08:26:45","slug":"large-rodents-roaming-rios-olympic-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/large-rodents-roaming-rios-olympic-golf-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Rodents Roaming Rio\u2019s Olympic Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rodent is stealing the spotlight from Olympic golfing.<\/p>\n<p>After 112 years, golf returns to the Olympics in Rio, but the cute, native rodents called Capybaras are the talk of the fairway, causing many Olympic golfers to pause practice and take pictures of the animals exploring the course.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-aquatic animals are native to South America and are the largest rodents in the world, standing about 61 centimeters and weighing up to 45 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey chew down on the grass at night,\u201d Mark Johnson, director of international agronomy for the PGA Tour told <em>The National Post<\/em>. \u201cThere are about 30-40 of them inside the course perimeter, but they live here and we play golf here, we co-exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Golf has not been an Olympic sport since 1904.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rodent is stealing the spotlight from Olympic golfing. After 112 years, golf returns to the Olympics in Rio, but the cute, native rodents called Capybaras are the talk of the fairway, causing many Olympic golfers to pause practice and take pictures of the animals exploring the course. The semi-aquatic animals are native to South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}