{"id":1749,"date":"2009-10-31T22:52:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/alan\/2009\/10\/reversal-of-zeeba-fortune.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:40","slug":"reversal-of-zeeba-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2009\/10\/reversal-of-zeeba-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Reversal of Zeeba Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <b>Pearls Before Swine<\/b> are all too aware of &#8220;Zeeba&#8217;s&#8221; sad story. By nature, a peaceful creature, vegetarian, and good neighbor, the zebra is endlessly pursued by Larry, the insanely ravenous (but dangerously stupid) crocodile next door. Larry makes one attempt on Zeeba Neighba&#8217;s life after another, but all comes to naught because, on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/comics\/pearls-before-swine#id=\/comics\/091027\/cx_pearls_umedia\/20092710\"><b>Oct 27, 2009<\/b><\/a>, Zeeba eats Larry. R.I.P.?<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zeeba_last_panel.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/zeeba_last_panel.gif\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" width=\"94\" height=\"204\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Pearls Before Swine are all too aware of &quot;Zeeba&apos;s&quot; sad story. By nature, a peaceful creature, vegetarian, and good neighbor, the zebra is endlessly pursued by Larry, the insanely ravenous (but dangerously stupid) crocodile next door. Larry makes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2009\/10\/reversal-of-zeeba-fortune\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}