{"id":551,"date":"2006-07-26T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/giant-rats\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T16:19:46","slug":"giant-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/26\/giant-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"possum.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/possum.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"414\" \/><br \/>\nAs I was feeding the cats, I noticed an animal looking down from our guava tree. This guy looks like he&#8217;s taken some abuse in the face. Maybe he was trying to eat Yoda&#8217;s food, and got clawed instead.<br \/>\nThe opossum looks a lot like the killer rodents of unusual size that attacked the Man in Black in The Princess Bride, and makes a loud hissing noise if molested. I&#8217;ve never heard of them attacking, and used to catch them by the tail when I was a kid.<br \/>\nAnother interesting thing about possums is that when they &#8220;play dead&#8221;, they actually pass out from being overwhelmed by terror. I&#8217;ve never seen them do this though. The ones around here must be pretty used to encounters with humans and their pets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was feeding the cats, I noticed an animal looking down from our guava tree. This guy looks like he&#8217;s taken some abuse in the face. Maybe he was trying to eat Yoda&#8217;s food, and got clawed instead. The opossum looks a lot like the killer rodents of unusual size that attacked the Man &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/07\/26\/giant-rats\/\">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-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}