{"id":2231,"date":"2016-06-04T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T23:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2016-06-04T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:58:42","slug":"i-smell-a-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/i-smell-a-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"I Smell a Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been wondering for a few weeks what happened to\u00a0the lavender essential oil I usually have\u00a0in the tack shed (it&#8217;s a soothing\u00a0addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savvyhorsewoman.com\/2013\/06\/coconut-oil-for-horses-top-10-uses.html\" target=\"_blank\">stuff<\/a>\u00a0I use to keep\u00a0the ponies&#8217; tails\u00a0pretty). Well, my\u00a0question was answered when I found this lying on the floor.\u00a0Seems\u00a0some wino rat\u00a0got desperate and went\u00a0on\u00a0a bit of a bender.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2234\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lavender-rat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2234\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lavender-rat-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Chewed and drank\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A full bodied white with a strong nose\u00a0of lavender and\u00a0hints of well\u00a0chewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/greenliving\/plastic-bottle-cap-crafts.html\" target=\"_blank\">#5 polyethylene<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Presumably\u00a0we now have\u00a0a lavender scented rodent\u00a0somewhere around the property, producing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_6162992_make-potpourri-dried-flowers.html\" target=\"_blank\">potpourri<\/a>-worthy\u00a0droppings. That&#8217;s going to confuse\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/the-old-dogs-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">old dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been wondering for a few weeks what happened to\u00a0the lavender essential oil I usually have\u00a0in the tack shed (it&#8217;s a soothing\u00a0addition to the stuff\u00a0I use to keep\u00a0the ponies&#8217; tails\u00a0pretty). Well, my\u00a0question was answered when I found this lying on&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/i-smell-a-rat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponies","category-rats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}