{"id":894,"date":"2008-08-03T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T02:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2008-08-03T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T03:51:08","slug":"just-like-mutual-of-omahas-wild-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Just like &#8220;Mutual of Omaha&#8217;s Wild Kingdom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe not.  Anyway, I loved <em>Mark Trail<\/em> when I was growing up because it was just like &#8220;Wild Kingdom&#8221; (well, without Jim Fowler being squeezed to death on a fairly regular basis by an anaconda, all the while being cheered on by Marlin Perkins) &#8212; they were about <strong>ANIMALS<\/strong>, and I just loved animals!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the years pass, I discover The Comics Curmudgeon and people of similar humorous bents.  Maybe it was Red Greenback&#8217;s surreal combining of two Sunday episodes of <em>Mark Trail<\/em> and <em>Rex Morgan, M.D.<\/em>, or maybe it was DAS speculating how Mark would explain MRSA (I think it involved a talking beaver).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the inspiration, thanks to those two gentleman:  speculating like that can&#8217;t be left languishing!<\/p>\n<p>(A side-note, not that you care:  my first mashup of Rex Morgan and Mark Trail just happened to be with each other.  Go check out &#8220;Ducklings? What Ducklings?&#8221; to see some hot flannel-on-khaki action!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/not-mt-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-895\" title=\"not-mt-27\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/not-mt-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/not-mt-27.jpg 660w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/not-mt-27-250x170.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe not. Anyway, I loved Mark Trail when I was growing up because it was just like &#8220;Wild Kingdom&#8221; (well, without Jim Fowler being squeezed to death on a fairly regular basis by an anaconda, all the while being cheered on by Marlin Perkins) &#8212; they were about ANIMALS, and I just loved animals! [&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":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-trail","category-rex-morgan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}