{"id":76,"date":"2003-05-13T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T21:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/05\/13\/badgers-are-interesting-too\/"},"modified":"2003-05-13T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2003-05-13T21:23:32","slug":"badgers-are-interesting-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/05\/13\/badgers-are-interesting-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers are interesting too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a40'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>America is cool because we have raccoons (alternatively, racoons &#8211; this  word, originally Powhatan Algonquian, has also been Englished as Rahaugcums, Raugroughcums, arocoune, Arathkone, Aroughcun, Rarowcun).<\/p>\n<p>We also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanciers.com\/breed-faqs\/maine-coon-faq.html\">Maine Coon Cats<\/a>, who apparently take their name from the raccoon.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Heartland\/2250\/legends.html#auth\">first recorded mention<\/a> of the breed in cat literature is of one named &#8220;Captain Jenks of the Horse Marines&#8221; &#8211; an unwieldy name but Maine Coons are unwieldy cats.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m convinced that my street-born cat Jonah is a Maine Coon.  He&#8217;s got all the characteristics!  But the breeders &#8211; the same top-hatted, moustache-twirling eugenicists who are breeding the Maine Coons&#8217; God-given polydactyly out of them &#8211; say you can only tell by pedigree.  Here&#8217;s Jonah <a href=\"http:\/\/h2odev.law.harvard.edu\/~jross\/jonah_pics\/jonah_at_ease.JPG\">at ease<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/h2odev.law.harvard.edu\/~jross\/jonah_pics\/jonah_sleepy.JPG\">sleepy<\/a>, and showing off his <a href=\"http:\/\/h2odev.law.harvard.edu\/~jross\/jonah_pics\/jonah_big_paw.JPG\">big paw<\/a> in a normal-sized hand.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, America and my cat are assuredly great, but what I meant to say is that I&#8217;ve always wanted to see a badger.  Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,3604,955147,00.html\">story <\/a> about a badger gettin&#8217; bizzo in Worcestershire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America is cool because we have raccoons (alternatively, racoons &#8211; this word, originally Powhatan Algonquian, has also been Englished as Rahaugcums, Raugroughcums, arocoune, Arathkone, Aroughcun, Rarowcun). We also have Maine Coon Cats, who apparently take their name from the raccoon. The first recorded mention of the breed in cat literature is of one named &#8220;Captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}