{"id":34,"date":"2007-07-01T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-07-14T05:54:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T13:54:45","slug":"banana-does-not-look-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Banana Does Not Look Like This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/Clipboard04-798429.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/Clipboard04-798397.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/banana.jpg\">Banana<\/a>&#8216;s a brown tabby with gloriously misshapen ears.  This actually looks more like my first-ever cat, The Cate. (Except for the nose.  The Cate had 63 dots on an otherwise flawlessly-pink nose.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/Clipboard02-760227.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 217px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/Clipboard02-760220.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>But there are many good things about the illustrations for this <em>Nature<\/em> interview.  For one thing, Banana makes two appearances, the second in the pull quote (which contains a typo, but then again, cats always were agents of chaos).  For another, I alone of the four of us retain some semblance of humanoid\/porcine ancestry.  And last but not least, I&#8217;m the only one who isn&#8217;t naked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/articles\/Nature_BioSkiffy.pdf\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the article itself.  URL for the director&#8217;s cut is contained therein \u2014 it&#8217;s not up yet as of this writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banana&#8216;s a brown tabby with gloriously misshapen ears. This actually looks more like my first-ever cat, The Cate. (Except for the nose. The Cate had 63 dots on an otherwise flawlessly-pink nose.) But there are many good things about the illustrations for this Nature interview. For one thing, Banana makes two appearances, the second in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,43,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellow-liars","category-interviews","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}