{"id":1822,"date":"2009-07-17T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:49:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:49:38","slug":"mountain-lion-vs-chainsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/mountain-lion-vs-chainsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion vs Chainsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a hint, never pick a fight when you are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/ex-marine-uses-chain-saw-to-fend-off-attacking-mountain-lion\/article1221908\/\" target=\"_blank\">out-gunned at the beginning<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that a sick and hungry mountain lion picked the wrong ex-marine to munch on.\u00c2\u00a0 The bad news for the mountain lion was that the marine happened to be cutting firewood at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 He cut the beast on the shoulder and it ran off, later to be hunted down by park rangers.<\/p>\n<p>As for the marine, this guy calmly went back to his pop-up trailer and spent the night in the bush with his family.\u00c2\u00a0 Hard core, I must say.\u00c2\u00a0 If I had to fight off a huge predator with a chainsaw I might be less inclined to spend the night myself, but I am not an ex-marine, clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you will excuse me, I have to go and wrestle the foil off the top of my yogurt container.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a hint, never pick a fight when you are out-gunned at the beginning.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that a sick and hungry mountain lion picked the wrong ex-marine to munch on.\u00c2\u00a0 The bad news for the mountain lion was that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/mountain-lion-vs-chainsaw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[158,157],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-lion-gets-spanked","tag-stupendous-badass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-to","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}