{"id":16381,"date":"2015-03-28T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=16381"},"modified":"2015-03-28T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:19:12","slug":"cant-ya-understand-plain-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/03\/cant-ya-understand-plain-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t ya understand plain English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, The Girlfriend was delighted to find a stuffed toy version of a <a href=\"http:\/\/animals.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/birds\/blue-footed-booby\/\" target=\"_blank\">blue-footed booby<\/a>, and who can blame her? Everyone should have one, and I know if I had possessed one while growing up instead of a neon-orange-and-white velveteen rabbit, I would be a different person today. I&#8217;ll just leave that hanging out there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Booby.jpg\" alt=\"blue-footed booby bow butt\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Booby.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Booby-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Around christmastime, somehow, it got one of those self-sticking gift bows attached to its hind end &#8211; you&#8217;re free to speculate. I figured it for an act of vandalism myself, and demanded to know the culprit responsible<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<em>Who<\/em> put the bow on the butt of the booby?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Such a simple, direct question &#8211; I don&#8217;t know <em>why<\/em> I had to ask it three times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em\">[Little Girl really did photobomb the frame as I was getting the shot &#8211; I only take credit for capturing it as it occurred.]<\/span><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, The Girlfriend was delighted to find a stuffed toy version of a blue-footed booby, and who can blame her? Everyone should have one, and I know if I had possessed one while growing up instead of a neon-orange-and-white velveteen rabbit, I would be a different person today. I&#8217;ll just leave that hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[2849,2848],"class_list":["post-16381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-random","tag-blue-footed-booby","tag-who-put-the-bomp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}