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“I’ma gonna get that bird in the mirror, I swear, this is my territory, I’ll show him—BONK!”
“Okay, this time for sure—BONK!”
“Tenth time’s the charm—BONK!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not even putting up a screen in front of the mirror has helped; our little friend just hopped down onto the stairs of the cat condo (that “table” is a cat condo with a re-purposed glass tabletop, to give one of our now-passed older cats a place to sit and see the stars while shielding him from the rain) and started bonking the lower section of the mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no reasoning with some people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. Yes, I am making a direct comparison of people whose political beliefs are built around their persecution by imaginary enemies to a bird not smart enough to recognize his own reflection, why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I’ma gonna get that bird in the mirror, I swear, this is my territory, I’ll show him—BONK!”“Okay, this time for sure—BONK!”“Tenth time’s the charm—BONK!” Not even putting up a screen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,193],"tags":[274,289],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-real-life","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-the-civic-duty-of-political-actions","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}