{"id":302,"date":"2003-09-23T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:28:52","slug":"302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/302\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kangaroo Has A Master Plan At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wise <a href=\"http:\/\/timblair.spleenville.com\/archives\/004242.php\" target=\"new\">Tim Blair says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kangaroos are friendly. Not like wombats; a wombat will leave you for dead every time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, he&#8217;s linking to a story about a kangaroo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2003\/09\/21\/1064082872885.html?from=storyrhs\" target=\"new\">tugging the Lassie grift<\/a> and drawing attention to a farmer who&#8217;d been knocked senseless.  The kangaroo might just have saved the farmer&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>However, we here at RooWatch Central have covered this ground already.  <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/14\/6973\/\" target=\"new\">Beware the kangaroos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this Lulu character is up to something.  Now Lulu is being lauded by Australians.  Suddenly, she starts amassing wealth and then uses her popularity as a springboard for replacing John Howard, and suddenly, it&#8217;s just like <i>On The Beach<\/i> (well, in that it&#8217;s the end of the world, and it&#8217;s set in Australia).<\/p>\n<p>Someone better take care of Lulu before she gets access to Australia&#8217;s nuclear arsenal or the <a href=\"http:\/\/collingwoodfc.com.au\/default.asp?pg=matchdetailsfin&#038;spg=default&#038;m_tournamentmatch_id=1143\" target=\"new\">Collingwood Magpies<\/a> is all I am saying.  Once she has the Bomb or a standing army, there will be no stopping her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wise Tim Blair says: Kangaroos are friendly. Not like wombats; a wombat will leave you for dead every time. Of course, he&#8217;s linking to a story about a kangaroo tugging the Lassie grift and drawing attention to a farmer who&#8217;d been knocked senseless. The kangaroo might just have saved the farmer&#8217;s life. However, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21698,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/21698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}