{"id":715,"date":"2006-03-20T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/03\/20\/i-was-thinking-in-my-head\/"},"modified":"2006-03-20T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T07:25:00","slug":"i-was-thinking-in-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/03\/20\/i-was-thinking-in-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Thinking&#8230; In My Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing series of memorable Audrey-inspired experiences continued this past weekend, with a trip to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0816039739\/qid=1142923601\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2\/104-1062707-8465541?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Safari Arnie<\/a>.  When she was a kid she was co-anchor on a show called Elementary News, and Arnie was a weekly guest who would show up with snakes and lizards and whales and stuff.  We visited him at his home in the hills on Sunday, and it was a pretty unreal experience &#8211; walking up to the guy&#8217;s house is like walking through a rainforest, with giant palm trees, vines, and even a huge stand of bamboo planted outside.  As soon as you enter the house you cross a small river with fish on one side and turtles on the other, and a giant cave bear skeleton stands eight feet tall to greet everyone.  He&#8217;s got vines, bones, and all sorts of other wackiness on display, and is a really cool guy to boot.  There were several highlights to the evening, but foremost amongst them was his story of how a robbery of his home many years ago was thwarted when the six alligators he was keeping in his yard started roaring.  I only wish I could make something like that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing series of memorable Audrey-inspired experiences continued this past weekend, with a trip to see Safari Arnie. When she was a kid she was co-anchor on a show called Elementary News, and Arnie was a weekly guest who would show up with snakes and lizards and whales and stuff. We visited him at his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/03\/20\/i-was-thinking-in-my-head\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Was Thinking&#8230; In My Head&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}