{"id":1629,"date":"2003-08-20T04:30:29","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/giant-gerbils\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:05:14","slug":"giant-gerbils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/giant-gerbils\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Gerbils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13721,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&amp;idq=\\\/ff\\\/story\\\/0002%2F20030819%2F104989657.htm&amp;sc=reodd&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13722,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gerbils.co.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260208235035\\\/http:\\\/\\\/gerbils.co.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:09:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 07:32:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 07:45:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 07:45:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to decide what amuses me more &#8212; this Netscape News story about an <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0002%2F20030819%2F104989657.htm&amp;sc=reodd\" title=\"News\">infestation of giant gerbils in China<\/a>, or the fact that the article mentions the fact that Britain has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerbils.co.uk\/\" title=\"The NGS Index\">National Gerbil Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to decide what amuses me more &mdash; this Netscape News story about an infestation of giant gerbils in China, or the fact that the article mentions the fact that Britain has a National Gerbil Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}