{"id":623,"date":"2008-12-13T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-12-13T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T20:34:25","slug":"the-hippo-got-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"The Hippo Got Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost Christmas and the radio stations are busy overplaying their catalog of holiday tunes. I haven&#8217;t heard the one about the <a title=\"Background Music\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=309\" target=\"_self\">Christmas donkey<\/a> yet this year (thank God!), but that doesn&#8217;t mean I got off scot-free. Oh, no. This year the hippo got me.<\/p>\n<p><em>I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.<br \/>\nOnly a hippopotamus will do.<br \/>\nNo crocodiles, no rhinoceroses.<br \/>\nI only like hippopotamuses<br \/>\nAnd hippopotamuses like me too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(or something like that)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s incredibly catchy. I only heard it twice and it&#8217;s been stuck in my head since. I guess it just wouldn&#8217;t be Christmas if I didn&#8217;t have a holiday tune playing nonstop in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you could get any exotic animal for Christmas, what would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost Christmas and the radio stations are busy overplaying their catalog of holiday tunes. I haven&#8217;t heard the one about the Christmas donkey yet this year (thank God!), but that doesn&#8217;t mean I got off scot-free. Oh, no. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=623\">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":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[99,52,517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}