{"id":438,"date":"2008-04-06T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2008-04-06T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T20:07:35","slug":"speaking-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of &#8220;Nature&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I was, a few posts below with Andy the Wonderdog, I did this some time ago when Big Hair Grandma Keane had dug into her &#8220;Grandma&#8217;s Big Book of Cloying Sayings to Needlework&#8221; and was spouting something to Jeffy about love and wings (or love and wings and nuts and berries and other bits of forest detritus).  Ah&#8230;the original showed Jeffy flapping his arms like a lunatic while telling Big Daddy Keane and Thel, &#8220;Grandma says parents should give their children love and wings.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Other than retorting that parents should give Grandma a good, swift kick, I&#8217;ll just mention that 20% of mammalian species are bats.  Cool fact, huh? Feel free to toss it about at your next cocktail party.  I loved my Mammalogy class (yay to Dr. Cockrum and Ronnie and Yar!).  Bats are just perfect, and you shouldn&#8217;t tamper with perfection.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Jeffy and the rest are open for ridicule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-keane-bats2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-441\" title=\"not-keane-bats2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-keane-bats2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-keane-bats2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-keane-bats2-250x125.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I was, a few posts below with Andy the Wonderdog, I did this some time ago when Big Hair Grandma Keane had dug into her &#8220;Grandma&#8217;s Big Book of Cloying Sayings to Needlework&#8221; and was spouting something to Jeffy about love and wings (or love and wings and nuts and berries and other bits [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-circus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}