{"id":1097370,"date":"2026-07-18T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1097370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:01:18","slug":"seattles-beloved-jimothy-the-raccoon-takes-the-internet-by-storm-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1097370\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle\u2019s beloved Jimothy the raccoon takes the internet by storm | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/seattle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle<\/a> woman&#8217;s video of an unusually round <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/raccoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raccoon<\/a> nicknamed &#8220;Jimothy&#8221; has propelled the creature to viral fame.<\/p>\n<p>Kiana Hall, 33, noticed the animal wandering around in the Ballard neighborhood. She told Reuters that she thought she was seeing &#8220;some kind of gray, fluffy creature that was shaped sort of like an orb with really long legs. Almost&#8230; like a monkey or a lemur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After posting her video of the raccoon on social media and naming it &#8220;Jimothy&#8221;, it became a viral sensation with millions of views online.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why Jimothy has shot to stardom, Hall said: &#8220;I think he&#8217;s just sort of round and a silly little guy, and people just sort of need something silly and fun in their life right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After The Seattle Times published a video of Jimothy on social media, others came forward with their own sightings of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Seattle woman&#8217;s video of an unusually round raccoon nicknamed &#8220;Jimothy&#8221; has propelled the creature to viral fame.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1097371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[10105,299478,299479,299477,31481,47671,393,271709,50024,1512,19560,75473,299476,44888,252298,11627,77777,47681,150535,59502,2249,70,257969,10031,93,6573,16,15,271711,659,1717,255559],"class_list":["post-1097370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-usa","tag-wildlife","tag-world-sports-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}