{"id":462,"date":"2007-05-08T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2007-05-08T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T23:57:53","slug":"animals-are-suchanimals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Animals Are Such&#8230;Animals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darwinawards.com\/stupid\/stupid2006-06.html\" target=\"_blank\">Another case<\/a>, via the <a href=\"https:\/\/darwinawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin Awards<\/a>, of a human being surprised by the fact animals are not human:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>(August 2006, Florida) A scuba diver was bitten on the lip when he attempted to kiss a nurse shark. The bite was a surprise to the diver, as he had already kissed hundreds of sharks. He explained, &#8220;You pick &#8217;em up, rub their belly, scratch &#8217;em, hug them, you might as well give &#8217;em a smooch while you&#8217;re out there.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m <em>certain<\/em> with over 450 million years of evolution behind them, sharks have a highly developed sense of &#8220;hug&#8221; and &#8220;smooch.&#8221; This particular shark probably and a momentary lapse into the evolutionary dark ages and confused &#8220;hug and smooch&#8221; with &#8220;slash and tear.&#8221; Oooops.<\/p>\n<p>Keep at it, Diver Dan. I hear the really big sharks are just as cuddly as a bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another case, via the Darwin Awards, of a human being surprised by the fact animals are not human: (August 2006, Florida) A scuba diver was bitten on the lip when he attempted to kiss a nurse shark. The bite was a surprise to the diver, as he had already kissed hundreds of sharks. He explained, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}