{"id":199588,"date":"2007-07-12T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/12\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badgers\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:45:00","slug":"we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/12\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badgers\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinkin&#8217; Badgers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British troops are being blamed for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/07\/12\/basra_badger_black_op\/\">plague of &#8220;honey badgers&#8221; <em>melivora capensis<\/em> in Basra<\/a>.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They are native to the region but rare in Iraq. They&#8217;re nocturnal carnivores with a fearsome reputation, but they don&#8217;t stalk humans and carry them back to their lair.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>The occupation of Iraq has just entered the twilight zone.<br \/><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ftt0GJuYwV4\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ftt0GJuYwV4\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British troops are being blamed for a plague of &#8220;honey badgers&#8221; melivora capensis in Basra. &#8220;They are native to the region but rare in Iraq. They&#8217;re nocturnal carnivores with a fearsome reputation, but they don&#8217;t stalk humans and carry them back to their lair.&#8221; The occupation of Iraq has just entered the twilight zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199588"}],"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=199588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}