{"id":2949,"date":"2011-02-02T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2011-02-02T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:43:01","slug":"poisonous-rat-duck-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/02\/02\/poisonous-rat-duck-day","title":{"rendered":"Poisonous Rat-Duck Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/38514962@N08\/4287853248\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2774\/4287853248_2bfdb7d189_m.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Platypus\" title=\"Platypus\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" class=\"right\" style=\"float:right\"><\/a>Today is Groundhog Day, which is hilarious to me. How did they outmaneuver the other animals and get their own holiday?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I personally would prefer Platypus Day. There\u2019s an animal that deserves to be celebrated. It\u2019s a furry, poisonous rat-duck. A platypus is practically a living Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow the groundhogs won out. I suspect bribery.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, today I will honor platypi in my heart. Although <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platypus\">Wikipedia tells me<\/a> that <i>platypi<\/i> is incorrect and I should say <i>platypuses<\/i> or <i>platypodes<\/i>. Also, they are venomous and not poisonous (venom is injected, poison is consumed).<\/p>\n<p>To which I say: poisonous rat-duck sounds better than venomous rat-duck, and platypi has a satisfying faux-intellectual ring to it. Let rhetoric prevail, and let the poisonous rat-ducks have their day on the calendar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Groundhog Day, which is hilarious to me. How did they outmaneuver the other animals and get their own holiday?&nbsp; I personally would prefer Platypus Day. There\u2019s an animal that deserves to be celebrated. It\u2019s a furry, poisonous rat-duck. A platypus is practically a living Pok\u00e9mon. But somehow the groundhogs won out. I suspect \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/02\/02\/poisonous-rat-duck-day\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cPoisonous Rat-Duck Day\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Lz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}