{"id":331,"date":"2003-11-17T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmayhaps.wordpress.com\/2003\/11\/17\/88"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:19:14","slug":"88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/88\/","title":{"rendered":"and then there was one &#8230; and then two again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI shall call him Nemo, and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Nemo.*\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI came home to find only one of my newest additions swimming in the tank, where before there had been two. And, again, there was a <a href=\"..\/blog-archived\/2003_11_01_archive.html#106798537606958105\"><b>lack of a body<\/b><\/a>, even after a thorough cleaning of the tank, leading me to suspect that I might indeed have a carnivorous fish on the loose.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd to think, if I hadn&#8217;t cleaned my filter (I was lazy and didn&#8217;t want to but thought I <i>really should<\/i>) I never would have found him <b>swimming happily in the filter<\/b>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFirst <a href=\"..\/blog-archived\/2001_09_01_archive.html#5866992\"><b>kittens that like to go in fridges<\/b><\/a>, now fish that like to go in filters &#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>*For those who haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingnemo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Finding Nemo<\/b><\/a>, the &#8220;Nemo&#8221; reference is to when Nemo gets into the filter in a bid to escape. The rest of the line was a reference to one of my favourite lines from the movie where Dory finds a &#8220;squishy&#8221; to call her own.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shall call him Nemo, and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Nemo.* I came home to find only one of my newest additions swimming in the tank, where before there had been two. And, again, there was a lack of a body, even after a thorough cleaning of the tank, leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9vfXi-88","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}