{"id":182039,"date":"2026-02-17T22:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:27:16","slug":"new-ambassador-at-oakland-nature-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182039\/","title":{"rendered":"New ambassador at Oakland Nature Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h908335-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Oakland Nature Preserve now has a new addition to its team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h908335-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Buttercup, a Virginia Opossum, now is part of ONP&#8217;s ambassador team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h908335-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Buttercup was deemed unreleasable because of medical issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h908335-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">She now is getting settled in her external enclosure at ONP aka her new home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h908335-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;She&#8217;s still a little shy, so don&#8217;t be alarmed if you don&#8217;t see her when you visit,&#8221; ONP posted. &#8220;As she gets more comfortable you will see her out more at events and greeting school groups and visitors.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h908335-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">ONP would like to remind everyone wild opossums cannot be kept as pets as they have specialized diets and need more care than a domestic animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h908335-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;Drop by to see her soon and share the love,&#8221; ONP posted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Nature Preserve now has a new addition to its team.\u00a0 Buttercup, a Virginia Opossum, now is part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-182039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}