{"id":244,"date":"2003-04-07T09:14:55","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2003-04-07T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T16:14:55","slug":"panda-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/panda-love\/","title":{"rendered":"PANDA LOVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Message in a Battle By Holly\u00a0Bailey\" href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2081192\/\">Message in a Battle By Holly\u00a0Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally, coverage of the war in Iraq nearly overshadowed a major romantic development in Washington this week. As the WP reported yesterday, Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, the National Zoo&#8217;s giant pandas, mated for the first time on Friday\u00e2&#8364;&#8221;though zoo staffers almost missed it. The encounter lasted just 15 seconds, forcing curators to study an instant replay of the exhibit&#8217;s security cameras to confirm it actually happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds more like a failed attempt to me. Ms. Panda shoved him off and said, &#8220;No way! They are going to play this clip on the internet, you perv!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message in a Battle By Holly\u00a0Bailey &#8220;Finally, coverage of the war in Iraq nearly overshadowed a major romantic development in Washington this week. As the WP reported yesterday, Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, the National Zoo&#8217;s giant pandas, mated for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/panda-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/panda-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}