{"id":922,"date":"2008-12-17T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/hippo.html"},"modified":"2008-12-17T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T12:35:00","slug":"hippo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/hippo.html","title":{"rendered":"Hippo&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to post this given my sons&#8217; quirky fascination with these whale wannabees. From deepest darkest Africa comes a report that several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_3123508.html?menu=news.quirkies\">scout leaders had their canoe swamped by a hippo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_3123508.html?menu=news.quirkies\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 410px; height: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/images\/web\/1462252.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>&#8220;We were on full hippo watch and all of a sudden we came to an abrupt halt. I thought we had hit a rock. The front went up and the middle went up.      <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It burst out like a submarine missile. We didn&#8217;t have time to be scared. The canoe was going down fast. The hippo was about 20 yards away looking at us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All of which leads me to conclude that the Scout Handbook may want to revise the chapter outlining the correct procedure for performing a Full Hippo Watch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to post this given my sons&#8217; quirky fascination with these whale wannabees. From deepest darkest Africa comes a<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/12\/hippo.html\" title=\"Read Hippo&#8230;\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}