{"id":2977,"date":"2008-08-13T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2008-08-13T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T01:22:00","slug":"odd-pet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Odd Pet News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting articles, all related to pets, in the news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Everything is better with Boraxo<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/video\/animal-index.html?nvid=139048&#038;shu=1\" target=\"_blank\">A washing machine&#8230;. for your cat or dog<\/a>. (Hmmm&#8230;. not sure I would be as brave as the reporter)<br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\">(First seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/theferrett.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">theferrett<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Kids, Don\u2019t Try This At Home<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> Man tries to neuter his schnauzer at home&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2008808120370\" target=\"_blank\">with a razor blade<\/a>. (Yes, the dog is OK, although only half the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answerbag.com\/q_view\/6446\" target=\"_blank\">son of a bitch<\/a> he was&#8230; and the owner has been fined)\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Perhaps It Belongs in the Macy\u2019s Parade<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7558129.stm\" target=\"_blank\">giant inflatable dog turd brought down a power line<\/a> after being blown away from a Swiss museum. (And to think in Burbank CA, they only want to <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/apr\/09\/local\/mew-balloons9\" target=\"_blank\">ban metallic balloons<\/a> for the same reason)<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting articles, all related to pets, in the news: From the \u201cEverything is better with Boraxo\u201d Department: A washing machine&#8230;. for your cat or dog. (Hmmm&#8230;. not sure I would be as brave as the reporter) (First seen on theferrett) From the \u201cKids, Don\u2019t Try This At Home\u201d Department: Man tries to neuter <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2977\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311,131],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-pets","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}