{"id":17330,"date":"2015-04-22T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17330"},"modified":"2023-03-23T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:28:08","slug":"giant-rats-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17330","title":{"rendered":"Giant Rats: V"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been a while since any new rat stories cropped up, but the original article <a title=\"Giant Rats\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I wrote about giant rats remains popular<\/a>. So this <a title=\"Caribbean super-rat history extracted from DNA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-32412191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest item on the BBC website<\/a> made me smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It talks of a race of super-rats which once lived in the Caribbean&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8230;some of which grew to the size of cats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I think they must have forgotten about the ones in Bradford, which were &#8211; according to the natives &#8211; the size of a Fiat 500. The Caribbean ones were mere mice by comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since any new rat stories cropped up, but the original article I wrote about giant rats remains popular. So this latest item on the BBC website made me smile. It talks of a race of super-rats which once lived in the Caribbean&#8230; &#8230;some of which grew to the size of cats. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}