{"id":221,"date":"2005-03-02T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=215"},"modified":"2005-03-02T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T13:17:01","slug":"2605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"2\/6\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have been bugging me about getting a pet on the road (apparently the bobble head dogs were getting old).  A few states back in Texas, a lizard jumped up on our Sarah&#8217;s hand while the kids were playing in the grass.  Apparently some lizards are friendly.  Being from Ohio, I didn&#8217;t know that.  Anyway, after a litany of:  <em><strong>&#8220;Can we keep her dad?  Can we?!!!,&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>I relented. I mean how much maintainence can a small lizard be, right?&#8230;  So now having gotten &#8220;Lizzie&#8221;  (Pretty creative name, huh?) a small terrarium, we put some &#8220;reptile pellets&#8221; in, and after a couple days &#8212; we were starting to see Lizzie&#8217;s ribs.  She apparently didn&#8217;t like the pellets&#8230;  Then someone at <em>PetSmart<\/em>  informed me that if a Lizard has been in the &#8220;wild,&#8221; they&#8217;ll only eat things like small crickets.  And the store just happened to sell &#8220;cricket farms&#8221; &#8212; complete with a cricket terrarium, hatching tubes, feeding pellets&#8230;  &#8220;A <em>cricket farm<\/em>?&#8221;  I asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids have been bugging me about getting a pet on the road (apparently the bobble head dogs were getting old). A few states back in Texas, a lizard jumped up on our Sarah&#8217;s hand while the kids were playing <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=221\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}