{"id":5141,"date":"2016-10-07T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T23:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2016-10-07T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T23:19:31","slug":"because-theyre-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=5141","title":{"rendered":"Because they&#8217;re cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sally, who will be 30 years old next spring, has developed an occasional constipation issue.  Since Sally hadn&#8217;t produced any notable amounts of stool from her last feeding about a month ago, on the advice of my exotic species treating friends I took her to work with me on Monday to get some x-rays that might tell me if there was a mass that was keeping her from pooping normally.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to note that there is not a mass and, miracle of miracles, a little radiation therapy does a great job treating snakey constipation because when we were done taking x-rays Sally pooped copiously.  All over my fresh scrubs.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless I thought I&#8217;d post these because they&#8217;re cool!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake_CR_NO_20161004_001-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Head\" width=\"1203\" height=\"2123\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake_CR_NO_20161004_001-1.jpg 1203w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake_CR_NO_20161004_001-1-170x300.jpg 170w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake_CR_NO_20161004_001-1-768x1355.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake_CR_NO_20161004_001-1-580x1024.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1203px) 100vw, 1203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-middle.jpg\" alt=\"sally-snake-middle\" width=\"1187\" height=\"2140\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-middle.jpg 1187w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-middle-166x300.jpg 166w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-middle-768x1385.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-middle-568x1024.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1187px) 100vw, 1187px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-tail.jpg\" alt=\"sally-snake-tail\" width=\"1184\" height=\"2140\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5145\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-tail.jpg 1184w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-tail-166x300.jpg 166w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-tail-768x1388.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/Sally-Snake-tail-567x1024.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally, who will be 30 years old next spring, has developed an occasional constipation issue. Since Sally hadn&#8217;t produced any notable amounts of stool from her last feeding about a month ago, on the advice of my exotic species treating friends I took her to work with me on Monday to get some x-rays that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}