{"id":774722,"date":"2026-07-20T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774722\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:54:10","slug":"an-oddly-shaped-raccoon-named-jimothy-has-taken-the-world-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774722\/","title":{"rendered":"An oddly-shaped raccoon named \u2018Jimothy\u2019 has taken the world by storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SEATTLE (CNN) \u2014 An oddly-shaped raccoon named \u201cJimothy\u201d is going viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Videos of Jimothy wandering around Seattle have taken the internet by storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The raccoon is known to locals for his unique and spherical shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One local veterinarian believes Jimothy has a congenital spine-shortening disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt does look quite unusual, but it is a condition that occurs in other mammals as well,\u201d veterinarian Carrie Schenider said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rotund raccoon has achieved legendary status online and has inspired fan art.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (CNN) \u2014 An oddly-shaped raccoon named \u201cJimothy\u201d is going viral. Videos of Jimothy wandering around Seattle have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[330508,330510,327872,330507,617,5000,79,1839,330509,44262,330505,330506,201],"class_list":["post-774722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-congenital-spine-shortening-disease","tag-fan-art","tag-jimothy","tag-jimothy-the-raccoon","tag-raccoon","tag-racoon","tag-science","tag-seattle","tag-spinal-disease","tag-spine","tag-weird-shaped","tag-weirdly-shaped","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}