{"id":2748,"date":"2004-08-12T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T07:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/12\/crackrats\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:55:44","slug":"crackrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/12\/crackrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackrats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10398,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/HEALTH\\\/08\\\/12\\\/addicted.rats.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/HEALTH\\\/08\\\/12\\\/addicted.rats.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From the wonderfully zany world of IM conversations&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Prairie: (okay, I shouldn&#8217;t think this is funny, but it&#8217;s cracking me up): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/HEALTH\/08\/12\/addicted.rats.ap\/index.html\" title=\"Rat addicts may unravel human addiction\">Studies find rats can get hooked on drugs<\/a>\\<br \/>\n  Prairie: they fed crack to rats<\/p>\n<p>  Me: :laughs<\/p>\n<p>  Prairie: what did they think would happen?<\/p>\n<p>  Me: it&#8217;s a little hard to picture a rat with a monkey on its back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  Prairie: giggles\\<br \/>\n  Prairie: that&#8217;s part of what I think it funny about it<\/p>\n<p>  Me: crackrats<\/p>\n<p>  Prairie: laughs!\\<br \/>\n  Prairie: &#8220;Until now, scientists have been able to prove that rats will take drugs, even eagerly, but not that they&#8217;re actually addicted.&#8221;\\<br \/>\n  Prairie: that sentence keeps giving me giggles\\<br \/>\n  Prairie: and how are the rats getting the drugs?\\<br \/>\n  Prairie: the conservative, lovely scientists are pushing them<\/p>\n<p>  Me: I liked this one &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>  Me: \\&#8221; In the French study, rats poked their pointy noses through holes in their cages to trigger injections of cocaine.&#8221;\\<br \/>\n  Me: I think it&#8217;s the&#8221;pointy\\&#8221; adjective that does it for me<\/p>\n<p>  Prairie: giggles<\/p>\n<p>  Me: apparently, the rats with stumpy, blunted noses were less susceptible?<\/p>\n<p>  Prairie: haha&#8211;no, but they couldn&#8217;t get their noses through the bars to get the drugs<\/p>\n<p>  Me: or, are they contrasting that to poking their pointy tails through?\\<br \/>\n  Me: or other pointy bits?\\<br \/>\n  Me: (kinkycrackrats)<\/p>\n<p>  Prairie: laughs even harder\\<br \/>\n  Prairie: (and EEEW!)<\/p>\n<p>  Me: :laughs\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Mine (Live)&#8221; by Webley, Jason from the album <em>Halloween Special 2001<\/em> (2001, 3:04).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prairie:  (okay, I shouldn&#8217;t think this is funny, but it&#8217;s cracking me up): Studies find rats can get hooked on drugs&hellip;they fed crack to rats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,2043],"tags":[6,39],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}