{"id":112,"date":"2006-07-06T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/07\/06\/talk-about-loaded\/"},"modified":"2006-07-06T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T19:40:31","slug":"talk-about-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/07\/06\/talk-about-loaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about loaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The real <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_Basilisk\" title=\"Wikipedia has my back.\">basilisk<\/a> is sometimes called the &#8220;Jesus lizard,&#8221; but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basilisk\" title=\"Jesus can spit poison?  I guess that's why you don't fuck with the Jesus.\">other basilisk<\/a> may have been based on the cobra, which has crownlike markings and projectile venom.  The enemy of the cobra is, famously, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mongoose\" title=\"By &quot;famously&quot; I mean &quot;Kiplingly.&quot;\">mongoose<\/a>; one species of mongoose is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meerkat\" title=\"Surely the first symbology considered by the makers of the Lion King.\">meerkat<\/a>, which in turn is called the sun angel, and protects villagers from the werewolf devil of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Mulch, mulch, rumble rumble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real basilisk is sometimes called the &#8220;Jesus lizard,&#8221; but the other basilisk may have been based on the cobra, which has crownlike markings and projectile venom. The enemy of the cobra is, famously, the mongoose; one species of mongoose is the meerkat, which in turn is called the sun angel, and protects villagers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}