{"id":3981,"date":"2023-02-20T17:19:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2023-02-20T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:19:31","slug":"animals-checking-in-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"Animals checking in on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been two weeks since I visited the National Aquarium in Baltimore, a delightful experience you can read about <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3961\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLooking at zoo and aquarium animals through a 21st century lens, of course, one wonders about the fairness of such an arrangement. Animals kept in captivity? Who do we think we are, right?<\/p>\n<p>I had a long chat with an Irukandi jellyfish that day and we exchanged information when I left. Two weeks had gone by and no contact, so I figured that even though he seemed friendly maybe he really was harboring some resentment.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I got a text.<br \/>\nIt read, \u201cHey sucker&#8230;have a good week at WORK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Point taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been two weeks since I visited the National Aquarium in Baltimore, a delightful experience you can read about here. Looking at zoo and aquarium animals through a 21st century lens, of course, one wonders about the fairness of such &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}