{"id":6217,"date":"2009-08-01T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2012-09-28T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T23:57:44","slug":"snails-and-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/6217\/snails-and-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Snails and Frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad snail! Bad! Don&#8217;t eat the aquarium frog! (Imagine, snails as bullies. They frequently pester the aquarium frogs and the frogs don&#8217;t like it. A snail just landed on one of them and terrified the poor frog. The frog would try to move, the big snail would cling on, wrapped nearly around it.<\/p>\n<p>The snails got me reading about octopi and how there are people who will try to keep them in home salt water aquariums but it&#8217;s almost impossible as they&#8217;re so smart and are such escape artists. Plus they bore so easily that it&#8217;s fairly cruel to do to them. I already knew this but was reacquainting myself, having been charmed by their distant cousins, the snails, who haven&#8217;t much of a brain going for them. My favorite pro aquarium story so far is of an octopus who didn&#8217;t like that it&#8217;s been fed slightly spoiled shrip, waited until the keeper returned, made eye contact, then jammed the food down the drain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad snail! Bad! Don&#8217;t eat the aquarium frog! (Imagine, snails as bullies. They frequently pester the aquarium frogs and the frogs don&#8217;t like it. A snail just landed on one of them and terrified the poor frog. The frog would try to move, the big snail would cling on, wrapped nearly around it. The snails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,311],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}