{"id":4534,"date":"2007-06-27T21:47:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T02:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4534"},"modified":"2007-06-27T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T23:48:41","slug":"just_when_you_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/just_when_you_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Just when you think you&#8217;ve seen it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m utterly speechless.<\/p>\n\n<p>\n<object height=350 width=425><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/82sBxSZBbUk\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/82sBxSZBbUk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<p>One of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=82sBxSZBbUk\">YouTube&#8217;s commentors<\/a> tries to explain things &#8211; <\/p>\n\n<blockquote>This is a rite of passage in India. It has not fangs and it&#8217;s mouth is sewn shut. Also, it has no constricting force so it&#8217;s less dangerous then a dog or cat.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&#8230; And discussion on urban-mythbusting website <a href=\"http:\/\/message.snopes.com\/showthread.php?t=8564\">snopes.com seems to concur<\/a>.   Any mutineers have insight here?   I mean it&#8217;s one thing to teach a baby not to fear *this* snake but rue the day he should start fearing all snakes.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m utterly speechless. One of YouTube&#8217;s commentors tries to explain things &#8211; This is a rite of passage in India. It has not fangs and it&#8217;s mouth is sewn shut. Also, it has no constricting force so it&#8217;s less dangerous &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/just_when_you_t\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}