{"id":1291,"date":"2002-12-26T22:08:52","date_gmt":"2002-12-27T03:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2002-12-26T22:08:52","modified_gmt":"2002-12-27T03:08:52","slug":"rudolph-the-green-clawed-hermit-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Rudolph, the Green Clawed Hermit Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crab.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/Crab.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nEveryone, this is Rudolph.  Rudolph, this is everyone.  In this picture, Rudolph is clinging to my Fiancee&#8217;s pinky fingertip.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRudolph is the pet of my semi-niece Morgan.  By semi-niece I mean she&#8217;s the daughter of a cousin, which I think makes her a second cousin or a cousin once removed or some similarly silly name derived through genealogical illogic.  I can never remember, and since she&#8217;s about a tenth of my age it&#8217;s unfair to expect her to keep track of it.  It&#8217;s easier for her to remember that I&#8217;m one of her multitude of attending uncles.<\/p>\n<p>And no, I haven&#8217;t tried coming up with the rest of the words for Rudolph the Green Clawed Hermit Crab&#8217;s Christmas carol&#8230;  Yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone, this is Rudolph. Rudolph, this is everyone. In this picture, Rudolph is clinging to my Fiancee&#8217;s pinky fingertip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}