{"id":182517,"date":"2015-08-24T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/24\/because-i-refuse-to-panda\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:06:00","slug":"because-i-refuse-to-panda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/24\/because-i-refuse-to-panda\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I Refuse to Panda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have now placed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/34031630#?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">all members of the species Ailuropoda melanoleuca at the national zoo in Washington, DC<\/a> on my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/They%20Who%20Must%20Not%20Be%20Named\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A giant panda at a zoo in the United States has given birth to twin cubs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC only discovered Mei Xiang was pregnant during an ultrasound scan last week. The zoo said both cubs appeared healthy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Giant pandas are one of the most endangered species in the world and are notoriously hard to breed in captivity.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The National Zoo is one of only four zoos in the US to have pandas, which are on loan from China.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Call me a traditionalist, but if I want to overload you with cuteness, I will use cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have now placed all members of the species Ailuropoda melanoleuca at the national zoo in Washington, DC on my list of They Who Must Not Be Named: A giant panda at a zoo in the United States has given birth to twin cubs.Keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC only discovered Mei &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,1082],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-they-who-must-not-be-named"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}