{"id":5088,"date":"2017-02-28T16:39:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:48:06","slug":"in-like-a-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=5088","title":{"rendered":"In Like A Lion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.<\/p>\n<p>April comes in like a wet dog, and goes out like a full-grown sheep.<\/p>\n<p>May comes in like a butterfly, and goes out like another, less-interesting butterfly &#8212; not quite a moth, but almost. <\/p>\n<p>June comes in like a baby bird filled with potential and eager to experience summer, but goes out like a bird that spends its entire life pecking at trash and sitting on the same telephone pole for three months. <\/p>\n<p>July comes in like a tadpole and goes out like some sort of tadpole\/turtle hybrid we&#8217;ll call Turt-pole.<\/p>\n<p>August is just a hot, sticky fly cleaning itself atop a steamy puddle of bubbly dog saliva.<\/p>\n<p>September comes in like the screeching mom from <em>Malcolm in the Middle<\/em> and goes out like a teenager who tasted beer for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>October comes in like an amateur dentist and leaves like a metaphor. <\/p>\n<p>November comes in and hides whatever is in that bag. What&#8217;s in that bag, November? Tell us. We won&#8217;t be mad. We promise! <\/p>\n<p>December comes in like a peacock demanding your attention and goes out like an intelligent, yet desperate, dinosaur testing the electric perimeter fence looking for a weakness&#8230;and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>January sits there like the Wendy&#8217;s cup under a car seat from 2008.<\/p>\n<p>February comes in like an icy, cold dagger and goes out like someone who cannot believe how early or late Easter is this year. <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.laserfarm.com%2F%3Fp%3D5088&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. April comes in like a wet dog, and goes out like a full-grown sheep. May comes in like a butterfly, and goes out like another, less-interesting butterfly &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=5088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[37,58],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-transmission","tag-2017-transmissions","tag-animals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lion.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}