{"id":2000,"date":"2015-10-16T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:22:40","slug":"walking-with-my-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/walking-with-my-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with my rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG2553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG2553-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rex at my side\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG2553-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG2553-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG2553.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>A photo of me and my tyrannosaurus out for a stroll on a lovely day. The shot was taken at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prehistoricgardens.com\" target=\"_blank\">Prehistoric Gardens<\/a> on the Oregon Coast near Port Orford. Rexxy was on his best behavior and only snapped up a couple of passing tourists. Most of the populace was spared further mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was my firm, commanding voice, when I said, &#8220;No! No! No! Spit him out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You just have to speak loudly. And whatever you do&#8211;<em>do not<\/em> let him smell fear on you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of like ordering velociraptors around at Jurassic World.<\/p>\n<p>Or Chase Armstrong giving rexes human-aversion training in Dinosaur Tales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you do&#8211;do not let him smell fear on you. <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/walking-with-my-rex\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35,54,350,18],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinosaur-country","tag-dinosaur-wars","tag-earthfall","tag-jurassic-world","tag-tyrannosaur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}