{"id":406,"date":"2005-05-05T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2005\/05\/05\/pets\/"},"modified":"2005-05-09T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T08:23:27","slug":"pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2005\/05\/05\/pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we&#8217;re not allowed pets there are quite a few animals around our compound, mostly lizards but a few chickens as well.  In side the house we have geckos:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/House\/Gecko_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/House\/Gecko_t.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of a gecko clinging to our kitchen window\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I quite like the geckos and lizards, Marebec is not so impressed.  The other night I had to evict a lizard from her bedroom windowsill and a gecko from her bathroom.  I was quite surprised when the gecko tried to bite me, although they don&#8217;t seem to have much in the way of teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to persuade Marebec that geckos are quite cute and are performing the useful service of eating flies don&#8217;t seem to be working&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we&#8217;re not allowed pets there are quite a few animals around our compound, mostly lizards but a few chickens as well. In side the house we have geckos: I quite like the geckos and lizards, Marebec is not so impressed. The other night I had to evict a lizard from her bedroom windowsill and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}