{"id":773,"date":"2008-10-11T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=773"},"modified":"2009-04-28T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T04:15:52","slug":"like-a-real-reptile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Like a real reptile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petco.com\/\">PetCo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petsmart.com\/\">PetSmart<\/a> locations to-day, to get more things for taking care of a mouse.  I have or am awaiting receipt of almost everything that I want except for the mouse itself.<\/p><p>While I was at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petsmart.com\/\">PetSmart<\/a>, a girl came over to the area where rodents and birds were kept.  Shortly there&auml;fter, a couple of employees appeared, and told her that they would <em>not<\/em> sell a rat to her, because they feared that she was going to give the rat to a snake.  Apparently she was known to own a snake, and had bought a rat not many days ago.  The girl responded with a dubious tale of having given away the snake.  She was politely told that no rat would be sold to her.  As she was leaving, I thanked the employees.<\/p><p>There was also an older man working there who kept pulling out a picture of his dog to show to people.  This behavior was both amusing and charming.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I went to various PetCo and PetSmart locations to-day, to get more things for taking care of a mouse. I have or am awaiting receipt of almost everything that I want except for the mouse itself.While I was at a PetSmart, a girl came over to the area where rodents and birds were kept. Shortly [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[179,184,178,579],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-companion-animals","tag-mice","tag-pets","tag-rodentia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}