{"id":84,"date":"2006-04-28T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-10-10T21:36:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T05:36:26","slug":"harbor-city-bushy-tailed-rat-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Harbor City Bushy-Tailed Rat-Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current mood: hurty but good<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The debate in the scientific community rages on; Exactly how to classify the newly discovered endangered mammal recently sighted in Harbor City, on the campus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lahc.edu\/\">LA Harbor College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called <strong>&#8220;Harbor City Bushy-Tailed Rat-Bear&#8221;<\/strong> has not yet been given an official scientific name, as a specimen has not yet been captured and described in detail, nor, in fact, has one even been photographed yet. However, numerous descriptions from <span title=\"Yeah, okay, actually it was just me and this one other girl\">reliable eye-witnesses<\/span> have been composited to bring you this sketch.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Sketch\/Bushy_Tailed_Rat_Bear.png\" alt=\"Too Big To Be A Varmit, Too Small To Be A Beastie\" \/><\/center>Questions still abound regarding this mystery-animal. Is it a native species or an import?. Did toxins from the refinery cause mutations which resulted in the rapid evolvement of a new species?<\/p>\n<p>Conservationalists are already calling for legislation to protect this new animal. Although more study is required, the Rat-Bear&#8217;s habitat may already be in danger of being destroyed by the College&#8217;s construction and expansion work. Furthermore, the Rat-Bear&#8217;s proximity to <em>Machado Lake Park<\/em> puts it at risk for direct contact with <a href=\"http:\/\/savereggie.blogspot.com\/\">Reggie the Alligator<\/a>, Harbor City&#8217;s <em>other<\/em> famous exotic animal.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with naturalist <strong>Dr. C. Lynn Moon<\/strong>, she was quoted as saying; <em>&#8220;We have a working theory that the Rat-Bear may be the product of hybrid cross-breeding between a wild animal like a squirrel, and an escaped domestic pet such as a cat or Shi-tzu. Imagine if this same animal became too &#8216;friendly&#8217; with Reggie. The possible consequences are too terrifying to contemplate!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current mood: hurty but good The debate in the scientific community rages on; Exactly how to classify the newly discovered endangered mammal recently sighted in Harbor City, on the campus of LA Harbor College. The so-called &#8220;Harbor City Bushy-Tailed Rat-Bear&#8221; has not yet been given an official scientific name, as a specimen has not yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonsense","category-pseudoscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}