{"id":836,"date":"2010-06-17T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2010-06-17T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T12:40:27","slug":"because-it-was-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2010\/06\/17\/because-it-was-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Because It Was There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I decided it was high time for me to try and climb up dad&#8217;s big round chair again.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"gus is in my chair again\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/4685156232\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4072\/4685156232_2f68152143.jpg\" alt=\"gus is in my chair again\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I did, as you can see here. It had a bunch of stuff in it though, so it was more fun this time to climb around.<\/p>\n<p>I was even able to make it all the way to the top!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"gus tries to climb out of my chair (the wrong way)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/4684522507\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1285\/4684522507_54dd8960ed.jpg\" alt=\"gus tries to climb out of my chair (the wrong way)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, getting <em>down<\/em> from the top was a bit tricky. I decided to jump on the cardboard box in the bottom-left of the picture. But my aim was a little off, and the box was a little&#8230; um&#8230; unstable from being chewed&#8230; and I kind of slipped off the top and landed on the ground. (I was fine of course, I&#8217;m a super-tough bun.)<\/p>\n<p>Dad saw me and (after making sure I was OK) asked me &#8220;why did you climb my chair, Gus?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I told him the answer is simple:<\/p>\n<p><em>Because it was there<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>-Gus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\"><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=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus explains why he climbs his dad&#8217;s chair: &#8220;Because it was there!&#8221;<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-pictures","tag-bunny-behavior","tag-gus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}