{"id":936,"date":"2010-10-22T07:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2010-10-22T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:58:12","slug":"a-new-challenger-has-appeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2010\/10\/22\/a-new-challenger-has-appeared\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Challenger Has Appeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately dad has been lamenting over how much of a mess we make in our area, saying things like we&#8217;ve &#8220;gotten worse&#8221; and &#8220;stop making such a huge mess&#8221; and of course his exasperated cry of &#8220;I just cleaned your area!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, dad. Gus and I have no idea what he&#8217;s talking about. Our area is just fine, thank you. And the hay that is scattered all over the floor &#8211; well, as we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2010\/10\/08\/eating-hay-is-hard-work\/\">talked about previously<\/a>, if dad would just give us the good hay to begin with, we wouldn&#8217;t have to dig for it and scatter it everywhere. Honestly, can&#8217;t he figure this stuff out on his own, or do I have to spell it all out for him?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the other day mum and dad came home with a new box, and then <em>this <\/em>thing showed up:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"vacmaster shop vac\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/5104272597\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1223\/5104272597_6d857c1839.jpg\" alt=\"vacmaster shop vac\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Dad said he was tired of constantly picking up after us, and tired of our hay clogging his regular vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>Now, almost every day, once we&#8217;ve left our area and settled into dad&#8217;s office for our daily nap, we can hear dad using this thing for a little while out in our area. And then we come out, and all the hay we&#8217;ve meticulously scattered everywhere is <strong>GONE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, now there&#8217;s a new loud thing (which of course scares Gus; but I am made of sterner stuff) and another reason for dad to be invading our space.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I like where this is going.<\/p>\n<p>-Betsy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"59\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2007\/12\/07\/moving-furniture\/betsys-new-portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"143,136\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Betsy&amp;#8217;s New Portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-59\" title=\"Betsy's New Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/betsy-portrait.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buns face off against&#8230; a shop vac?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[9,19],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-pictures","tag-betsy","tag-human-behavior"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-f6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}