{"id":535,"date":"2009-02-19T08:52:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2009-02-19T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T22:22:42","slug":"time-to-start-thinking-about-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2009\/02\/19\/time-to-start-thinking-about-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to start thinking about Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dad came back from the store last night and told me how he saw they had taken down all their valentine&#8217;s day stuff and were starting to put up their Easter stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Easter always makes me think even more about all the other bunnies out there who aren&#8217;t as lucky as I am (oh and Betsy, too). I don&#8217;t like the idea of a holiday that encourages people to buy an animal that they probably aren&#8217;t prepared to take care of properly. Bunnies are <em>not<\/em> throw-away pets!!!<\/p>\n<p>Though on the good side, I have seen an awful lot of other pink-eyed white rabbits out there like me lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rabbitnetwork.org\/?p=1384\">Captain Mooncake<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/some-bunny.blogspot.com\/\">Norbert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disapprovingrabbits.com\/2009\/02\/vickie.html\">Vickie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disapprovingrabbits.com\/2009\/02\/snowball-and-xena.html\">Snowball<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.needle-eye.blogspot.com\/\">Pink<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And those are just the ones I can remember from recently. Hmmmm&#8230; maybe we should get together and form a union or something? Maybe the &#8220;Bunnihood of Pink-Eyed Rabbits?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, dad did see a lot of stuffed toy bunnies at the store &#8211; I&#8217;d highly recommend people thinking of buying a rabbit &#8220;for Easter&#8221; to get a stuffed one instead.<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, you really are interested in a long-term relationship with a rabbit, please, please, please adopt rather than buy from a store.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I have to say on this&#8230; for now.<\/p>\n<p>-Gus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2008\/02\/28\/dads-been-taking-pictures-again\/guss-newer-portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"212,158\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Gus&amp;#8217;s Newer Portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-128\" title=\"Gus's Newer Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Gus's Newer Portrait\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad came back from the store last night and told me how he saw they had taken down all their valentine&#8217;s day stuff and were starting to put up their Easter stuff. Easter always makes me think even more about all the other bunnies out there who aren&#8217;t as lucky as I am (oh and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[32,10],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-rabbit-activism","tag-easter","tag-gus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-8D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}