{"id":98,"date":"2004-10-19T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/visiting-the-talking-llama\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:22:59","slug":"visiting-the-talking-llama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/visiting-the-talking-llama\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the talking lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Methodist-Buddhist uncle asked if I would watch my grandma for a few hours so he could go out tonight to hear a llama speak. I complimented him on his interest in Peruvian culture. I was teasing him. He meant a lama, a Tibetan lama. A talking lama.<\/p>\n<p>As Ogden Nash once wrote,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A one-l lama, he&#8217;s a priest.<br \/>\nA two-l llama, he&#8217;s a beast.<br \/>\nAnd I will bet a silk pajama<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t any three-l lllama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be that as it may, I personally have never heard a talking lama <em>or<\/em> a talking llama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Methodist-Buddhist uncle asked if I would watch my grandma for a few hours so he could go out tonight to hear a llama speak. I complimented him on his interest in Peruvian culture. I was teasing him. He meant a lama, a Tibetan lama. A talking lama. As Ogden Nash once wrote, A one-l [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dry-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}