{"id":308,"date":"2004-11-29T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/11\/dread-natty-dread\/"},"modified":"2004-11-29T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T21:28:40","slug":"dread-natty-dread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/11\/29\/dread-natty-dread\/","title":{"rendered":"Dread Natty Dread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"natty1.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/natty1.JPG\" width=\"546\" height=\"409\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nNo, this is not the head of a black mop, nor is it the scalp of a Rastafarian. This walking natty dread is technically a dog. This dog reminds me of some of the voodoo demons that the Jamaican babysitter conjures to scare two misbehaving kids in the 80&#8217;s TV series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/GuidePageServlet\/showid-360\/epid-29343\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazing Stories<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"natty2.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/natty2.JPG\" width=\"557\" height=\"325\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nI have seen this strange beast wandering around the streets, like some sort of mutant caterpillar. Today it was sitting right in front of a sliding glass door, and wouldn&#8217;t budge, so pedestrians were forced to step over or walk around him to get in or out of the building.<br \/>\nHe must <i>really<\/i> stink when he gets wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not the head of a black mop, nor is it the scalp of a Rastafarian. This walking natty dread is technically a dog. This dog reminds me of some of the voodoo demons that the Jamaican babysitter conjures to scare two misbehaving kids in the 80&#8217;s TV series, Amazing Stories. I have &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/11\/29\/dread-natty-dread\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}