{"id":8254,"date":"2003-04-15T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T22:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/04\/15\/marauding-marsupials\/"},"modified":"2003-04-15T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T22:57:17","slug":"marauding-marsupials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/04\/marauding-marsupials\/","title":{"rendered":"Marauding Marsupials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">AN out-of-control kangaroo population in rural Victoria has left some residents cowering in their homes, a National Party MP said today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Noel Maughan, member for the seat of Rodney in central Victoria, said he had been lobbying the Victorian Government to redress the problem for months to no avail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">He said large numbers of kangaroos, who were stressed and starving because of the drought, had caused countless car accidents and had frightened locals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;There&#8217;s an anecdote of a kangaroo attacking and killing a dog,&#8221; Mr Maughan told AAP. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,6269518%255E13762,00.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">This will probably end up in a kangaroo court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">And to give equal coverage to reptiles:<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) &#8211; A woman in central Thailand held a funeral for a monitor lizard believed to have been the reincarnation of her 12-year-old son, who died in a road accident nearly two years ago, a report said Monday.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaufortgazette.com\/24hour\/weird\/story\/853448p-5980690c.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN out-of-control kangaroo population in rural Victoria has left some residents cowering in their homes, a National Party MP said today. Noel Maughan, member for the seat of Rodney in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}