{"id":1982,"date":"2010-06-08T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2010-06-07T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:47:08","slug":"whack-the-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/06\/whack-the-toad.html","title":{"rendered":"Whack the Toad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npsp.sa.gov.au\/site\/page.cfm?u=1547\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Cane Toad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npsp.sa.gov.au\/webdata\/resources\/images\/cane_toad.jpg\" alt=\"Cane Toad\" width=\"367\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Sounds like a new pop music group, or maybe a a euphemism for&#8230; oh well, just use your imagination.  But no, instead it&#8217;s a vacation plan!  Guess where we&#8217;re going this year kids?<\/p>\n<p>Australia is over run with cane toads, and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/leisure\/2010\/06\/04\/australia-recruiting-tourists-toad-killers\/\">mitigation strategy<\/a> is to have tourists pay to come and scour the outback with cricket bats, making toad mash of the critters.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Ewww.<\/span> What fun!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the toads were intentionally introduced to the continent in an attempt to control cane beetles.\u00a0 Now the toads and the beetles are both thriving nicely, but wreaking havoc on the environment as there are no natural predators&#8230; except you.\u00a0 Only you can prevent cane toads.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody goes to Six Flags for vacation.\u00a0 Give your kid something interesting to talk about at school in the fall.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing like the feeling of toad-flesh under your boot heel.\u00a0 The fresh squish of success.\u00a0 The down under version of Shock and Awwww.<\/p>\n<p>Make your plans today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like a new pop music group, or maybe a a euphemism for&#8230; oh well, just use your imagination. But<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/06\/whack-the-toad.html\" title=\"Read Whack the Toad\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justforfun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}