{"id":2203,"date":"2006-08-19T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T02:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2006-08-19T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T02:04:53","slug":"the-predator-on-your-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"The Predator On Your Couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/8\/18\/65928\/3005\">Daily Kos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They can see in the dark and hear a range of frequency fully three times broader than ours and sounds ten times as faint. Some can run at 70 miles per hour across uneven ground and turn on a dime. They possess the strength, balance, and raw power any human athlete\/gymnast would kill for.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[Their claws] are made of bony protein, superhardened with mineral matrices almost to the point of a synthetic glass, which flakes off in natural conical layers leaving the claws with a permanent, needle sharp point and a microscopically serrated cutting edge&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds lovely!  We&#8217;ll take two.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, we&#8217;ve already got two, so never mind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Kos: They can see in the dark and hear a range of frequency fully three times broader than ours and sounds ten times as faint. Some can run at 70 miles per hour across uneven ground and turn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","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=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}