{"id":2663,"date":"2009-07-02T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2009-07-02T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T21:21:10","slug":"sciurid-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"Sciurid Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems those barrels of toxic waste from the Williams Chemical Company are being dumped in Lost Forest by an unscrupulous waste-removal firm, with dubious links to the gambling community.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, evidently LoFo has a gambling community.  And Joey, one of the owners of WCC, is so far in debt that contracting with this waste-removal firm is the only way of preventing him having his acorns removed.  If you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>As Joey reveals this terrible secret to his sister, a local squirrel hears his confession and reacts with a nigh-on rabid response.  Part of the gambling mob? Or a member of the anti-gambling grassroots movement?  It&#8217;s hard to say with squirrels.<\/p>\n<p>Still, gambling is a fact of life and a source of income in many communities, even in LoFo, where Johnny Malotte&#8217;s &#8220;We Gonna Win Big Now&#8221; casino packs &#8217;em in nightly (from 5:30 until 8 or so, although it stays open all the way until 10 on Fridays and Saturdays).  And Johnny makes sure that his guests don&#8217;t &#8220;overdo&#8221; it by posting reminders to game responsibly:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/new-mt.jpg\" alt=\"new-mt\" title=\"new-mt\" width=\"282\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/new-mt.jpg 282w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/new-mt-176x250.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems those barrels of toxic waste from the Williams Chemical Company are being dumped in Lost Forest by an unscrupulous waste-removal firm, with dubious links to the gambling community. Yes, evidently LoFo has a gambling community. And Joey, one of the owners of WCC, is so far in debt that contracting with this waste-removal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-trail","category-psa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}