{"id":695,"date":"2007-01-21T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2007-01-21T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T18:53:20","slug":"of-mice-and-boys-pretending-to-be-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Of Mice And (Boys Pretending To Be) Men&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070119.cover20\/BNStory\/National\/?pageRequested=1\" target=\"_blank\">the rabbits<\/a> Stephane Dion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy first interest was for the society of animals, not of man,\u201d he recalls. \u201cWe had a neighbour named Gaston Moisan, a biologist who was a deputy minister of natural resources. He set traps for the rabbits, to band them, and used to take me with him. He was 5-foot-7, but he was a giant for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A charming childhood anecdote \u2014 except, according to Mr. Moisan, it never happened. \u201cI don&#8217;t know how he could have imagined that,\u201d the retired bureaucrat and university professor says. \u201cI had nothing to do with St\u00e9phane. And I never sensed any interest on his part for my work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Darcey at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustmybroom.com\/?p=5508\" target=\"_blank\">DustMyBroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me about the rabbits Stephane Dion. \u201cMy first interest was for the society of animals, not of man,\u201d he recalls. \u201cWe had a neighbour named Gaston Moisan, a biologist who was a deputy minister of natural resources. He set traps for the rabbits, to band them, and used to take me with him. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-moonbattery","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}