{"id":4252,"date":"2012-12-16T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2012-12-16T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T20:31:20","slug":"cretaceous-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2012\/12\/cretaceous-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cretaceous Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday, 15 December 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, Owen decided to spruce up our holiday-themed mantle. So he added a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceratopsidae\">ceratopsid dinosaur <\/a>with other dinosaurs sticking out from its frills. I can&#8217;t really explain it better than that, so just look at the picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2012\/12\/cretaceous-christmas\/dinosaur-on-mantlte\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4253\" title=\"dinosaur on mantlte\" src=\"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dinosaur-on-mantlte-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dinosaur-on-mantlte-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dinosaur-on-mantlte-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dinosaur-on-mantlte.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several hours later, Isla decided she needed to accent the decorations with something out of the\u00a0Cretaceous Period. Here&#8217;s her addition:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2012\/12\/cretaceous-christmas\/sprintphoto_bvzmdm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4256\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4256\" title=\"SprintPhoto_bvzmdm\" src=\"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SprintPhoto_bvzmdm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SprintPhoto_bvzmdm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SprintPhoto_bvzmdm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SprintPhoto_bvzmdm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her&#8217;s is the one on the vey left of the photo, with its rear end closest to us. Not sure why she wanted it to face away from us, but she might have thought it wanted to look at the other stuff on the mantle. She does that with other things, too. Like, sometimes she turns the photos sitting on our shelf so that they can look at each other, and lately she&#8217;s been &#8220;fixing&#8221; the ornaments on the xmas tree so that they can commune with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Also today, I submitted a short story to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/saintpaulalmanac.org\/\">The St. Paul Almanac<\/a> <\/em>in the hopes of getting it accepted for their 2014 edition. Today was the due date, but I won&#8217;t find out if mine&#8217;s made the cut until the last day of May. So&#8230;stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 15 December 2012 Today, Owen decided to spruce up our holiday-themed mantle. So he added a ceratopsid dinosaur with other dinosaurs sticking out from its frills. I can&#8217;t really explain it better than that, so just look at the picture: Several hours later, Isla decided she needed to accent the decorations with something out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}