{"id":638,"date":"2022-07-09T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2022-07-09T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T22:32:45","slug":"what-is-a-fancy-rat-lets-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/09\/what-is-a-fancy-rat-lets-find-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A ga2so.com &#8220;classic&#8221;: Fancy Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: &#8220;Classic&#8221; posts are just me moving some old stuff from static HTML pages to WordPress blog posts. &#8220;Classic&#8221; does not mean good. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>June 30, 1999<br>Fancy Rat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"345\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fancyrat.gif\" alt=\"Petco will sell you a rat for four bucks. FANCY!\" class=\"wp-image-639\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petco.com\/\">Petco<\/a>\u00a0flyer that came in the mail yesterday. What makes it a &#8220;fancy rat?&#8221; Does it dress up? Does it create intricate, delicate patterns with its droppings? And if it is so damn fancy, why does it only cost four bucks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>July 1, 1999<\/strong><br><strong>More Rats, Star Wars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My pal Ty gave me the lowdown on &#8220;fancy rats&#8221;- they&#8217;re just rats with colored markings. Apparently, &#8220;standard rats&#8221; are all gray or all brown, which I guess is the rat equivalent of walking around in your sweats all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realized something last night: Qui Gon is a bad man, an idiot, or both. He doesn&#8217;t heed the advice of his superiors, he steals blood, he lies about &#8220;his&#8221; ship and pod racer, he risks the life of a little boy to suit his needs, he brings the highly useless\u00a0<strong>amphibian<\/strong>\u00a0JarJar into the middle of a desert&#8230; and he&#8217;s the\u00a0<strong>master<\/strong>\u00a0&amp; Obi-Wan is the\u00a0<strong>trainee<\/strong>? That&#8217;s sort of like the manager at McDonald&#8217;s starting that Emiril guy from Food TV out on the fry machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: &#8220;Classic&#8221; posts are just me moving some old stuff from static HTML pages to WordPress blog posts. &#8220;Classic&#8221; does not mean good. June 30, 1999Fancy Rat From the\u00a0Petco\u00a0flyer that came in the mail yesterday. What makes it a &#8220;fancy rat?&#8221; Does it dress up? Does it create intricate, delicate patterns with its droppings? And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ga2so-com-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}