{"id":171,"date":"2006-10-22T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2006\/10\/22\/read-carefully\/"},"modified":"2006-10-22T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:41:42","slug":"read-carefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/read-carefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Carefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"hippos.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/hippos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image170\" height=\"88\" alt=\"hippos.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/hippos.thumbnail.jpg?fit=640%2C88\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, a tiny news item in the Los Angeles Times caught my eye. \u201cCongo hippies may face extinction,\u00e2\u20ac? I read to myself, thinking \u201cwow, they still have hippies in the Congo?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then I realized I had misread the word \u201chippos\u00e2\u20ac?. This happens to me all the time. Once, I went around telling everyone I knew that a woman had somehow got a snail up her nose without realizing it for ten years!&nbsp;\u00a0 I loved that story, until I discovered it had actually been a nail. Big deal; anyone could get a nail up their nose.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hippopotamus\" target=\"_blank\">hippos<\/a> in the Democratic Republic of Congo may be wiped out very soon, due to intense poaching by rebels. In the first two weeks of October, more than 400 hippos were slaughtered in Virunga National Park, which is home to one of Central Africa\u2019s greatest hippopotamus populations.<\/p>\n<p>There are now fewer than 900 hippos in Virunga, down from 22,000 in 1988. Isn\u2019t this shocking and sad?! I don\u2019t want to imagine a world without hippos. Hippies I could live without, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, a tiny news item in the Los Angeles Times caught my eye. \u201cCongo hippies may face extinction,\u00e2\u20ac? I read to myself, thinking \u201cwow, they still have hippies in the Congo?&#8221; But then I realized I had misread the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/read-carefully\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}