{"id":43,"date":"2007-08-10T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/08\/10\/fridays-primate-party\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T13:39:00","slug":"fridays-primate-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/08\/10\/fridays-primate-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s Primate Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Rrxud--mnpI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/WqC_2jPil6U\/s1600-h\/monkey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/Rrxud--mnpI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/WqC_2jPil6U\/s200\/monkey.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">I think I&#8217;ll continue my <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/bits-and-bobs.html\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">week-old tradition <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">of posting about primates on Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/6936533.stm\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">cheeky chappy <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">was a stowaway on a flight from Florida to New York. He escaped notice on his flight from Peru to Florida and during a subsequent stopover, but finally crawled out from under his owner&#8217;s hat on the way to New York. Reminds me of a line from Friends &#8211; &#8220;hey, that monkey has a Ross on its ass&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As far as monkeys go, there are worse species to sit next to on a plane<sup>1<\/sup>. Hell, I&#8217;d rather sit next to this cute little fella than some of the people I&#8217;ve endured on long flights.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">1. Howler monkeys and any species that throws faeces<sup>2<\/sup> spring to mind<\/p>\n<p>2. Hey, that rhymed! I&#8217;m a poet and I didn&#8217;t realise it. Anyone wanna start a limerick? Or maybe a monkey rap? <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ll continue my week-old tradition of posting about primates on Fridays. This week&#8217;s cheeky chappy was a stowaway on a flight from Florida to New York. He escaped notice on his flight from Peru to Florida and during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/08\/10\/fridays-primate-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,34,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeys","category-photos","category-primate-party","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}