{"id":67,"date":"2007-10-25T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/10\/25\/fridays-piggy-primate-party\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T13:49:00","slug":"fridays-piggy-primate-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/10\/25\/fridays-piggy-primate-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s Piggy Primate Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/RyCiWE4OfNI\/AAAAAAAAADo\/BrHJyLP0hFA\/s1600-h\/pig+monkey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/RyCiWE4OfNI\/AAAAAAAAADo\/BrHJyLP0hFA\/s200\/pig+monkey.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2007\/10\/is_this_a_good_way_to_go.php\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Various<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/amadtea-party.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/monkey-problems.html\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">blogs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"> have picked up on the story about a man being killed by monkeys in India. (Hey guys, primates in the news are my thin<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/RyCiLU4OfMI\/AAAAAAAAADg\/uLBUrTEaJ4w\/s1600-h\/pig+monkey.jpg\"><\/a>g. Mine.) So I&#8217;m going to tell a different Indian monkey story instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">newindpress.com <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20071024030223&amp;Page=K&amp;Headline=Pigs+with+a+monkey+chaperone&amp;Title=Southern+News+-+Karnataka&amp;Topic=0\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"> that a monkey is attacking a herd of piglets. Maybe not so unusual, except that until recently the monkey was in charge of the herd and apparently took excellent care of them. He guarded them from dogs, chaperoned them across roads &#8211; not quite a sheep-pig, but a pig-monkey.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">So why has the shepherd (erm, pigherd?) started to attack his flock? Is he just living up to the stereotype of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/fridays-primate-party.html\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">rebel Indian monkeys<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">?<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">There&#8217;s mileage in this story. He&#8217;ll be on Oprah before we know it.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various blogs have picked up on the story about a man being killed by monkeys in India. (Hey guys, primates in the news are my thing. Mine.) So I&#8217;m going to tell a different Indian monkey story instead. newindpress.com reports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/10\/25\/fridays-piggy-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-67","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\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}