{"id":167,"date":"2005-08-03T08:24:20","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T16:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:10:30","slug":"irony-supplement-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Irony Supplement, Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/irony07.jpg\" alt=\"Irony Supplement, Part 7\" border=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I took this picture at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grizzlydiscoveryctr.com\/\">Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center<\/a>, a not-for-profit wildlife parklet outside of Yellowstone. It&#8217;s part of a small gallery of so-called &#8220;bear-proof&#8221; refuse containers, all of which have had a serious can of ursine whoop-ass opened on them. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that this particular container\u2014ahem\u2014&#8221;bears&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearproofsystems.com\/\">URL of the manufacturer<\/a> makes it even ironicer. Er, more ironicer. Whatever. This particular model is even featured on the home page of bearproofsystems.com&#8217;s Web site.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;d like to know is: just what made the manufacturer think that adding a thin metal collar around the lid of a plastic trash can would suffice to prevent something as large and powerful as a grizzly from getting into it? Hell, I think <em>I<\/em> might be able to give that thing a run for its money, if I thought it contained a pic-a-nic basket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this picture at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center, a not-for-profit wildlife parklet outside of Yellowstone. It&#8217;s part of a small gallery of so-called &#8220;bear-proof&#8221; refuse containers, all of which have had a serious can of ursine whoop-ass opened on them. The fact that this particular container\u2014ahem\u2014&#8221;bears&#8221; the URL of the manufacturer makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irony-supplement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}