{"id":7921,"date":"2009-07-01T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2009-07-01T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:18:10","slug":"wallabies-are-getting-high-making-crop-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/wallabies-are-getting-high-making-crop-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies are Getting &#8220;High,&#8221; Making Crop Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Australia supplies 50% of the world&#8217;s legally grown opium? Opium that&#8217;s used to make morphine and other painkillers.  <\/p>\n<p>You did?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, smarty. Did you also know that wallabies tend to eat this opium and run around in circles afterwards til they crash?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=7962\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Rockos-Modern-Life_0001.jpg\" alt=\"Rockos-Modern-Life_0001\" title=\"Rockos-Modern-Life_0001\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7962\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,&#8221; Lara Giddings told the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then they crash,&#8221; she added. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/8118257.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/8118257.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">bbc <\/a>and someone on Twitter. We forgot exactly who.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Australia supplies 50% of the world&#8217;s legally grown opium? Opium that&#8217;s used to make morphine and other painkillers. You did? Ok, smarty. Did you also know that wallabies tend to eat this opium and run around in circles afterwards til they crash? &#8220;The one interesting bit that I found recently 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":[40],"tags":[832,1336,1334,506,1330,1335,1333,1332,36,1331],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","tag-australia","tag-back-to-basics","tag-crop-circles","tag-drugs","tag-drugs-are-bad-mkay","tag-have-some-strange","tag-legal","tag-opium","tag-quotables","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}