{"id":6686,"date":"2018-02-02T23:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T06:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2018-02-03T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:16:14","slug":"twnsnn-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=6686","title":{"rendered":"<em>TW\u2019NSNN<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Week\u2019s Not So Nasty News<br \/>\n. . . . from John.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #1: Thrilled<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/XX-Baby-Spice-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/XX-Baby-Spice-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/XX-Baby-Spice.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 85vw, 208px\" \/><br \/>\nGinger, Sporty, Posh, Scary, and Baby (shown at right)<br \/>\nare\/were The Spice Girls.<br \/>\nApparently, 20 years on, they intend to get back together.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<br \/>\nMust be running out of money.<\/p>\n<p>If you must:<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ\"><strong>Wannabe, 1996 <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #2: Why is this man smiling?<\/span><br \/>\nCentral Canada experienced flooding in 1997 \u2013 The flood of the century.  This brought high water and nutrients to Lake Winnipeg, already a big lake.  This was followed by a massive spawn of Walleye.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/XX-Walleye_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6685\" \/><br \/>\nThese fish are now maturing and have gotten quite large. A 4 pound fish has been considered a nice catch.  This year 15 pounders are being caught, reaching (so far) just under 3 feet.<br \/>\nStory here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/ice-fishers-world-records-lake-winnipeg-1.4499912\"><strong>Link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #3: Harri takes a cruise<\/span><br \/>\nA Brisbane, Australia parrot named Harri went missing. Gone for 2 weeks, he was. Then, 4 days into a 2 week cruise from Queensland\u2019s Sunshine Coast, the staff of The Sea Princess found the Rose-breasted cockatoo.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/XX-Harri-the-parrot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"456\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/XX-Harri-the-parrot.jpg 344w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/XX-Harri-the-parrot-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 85vw, 344px\" \/><br \/>\nThe ship was on its way to New Zealand.  But guess what? &#8220;<em>New Zealand&#8217;s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) said the only way for the cruise ship to enter the country was for Harri to either be euthanased, or secured and bonded to the vessel.<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\nOops!<br \/>\nCommunications back to Brisbane informed all that Harri was a pet with a microchip and quite healthy.  He got his own room. The turn-around in New Zealand went ahead, and the return trip is underway.<br \/>\nNow the question is &#8220;What did Harri know?<br \/>\nSeems his folks had book a cruise on another of the Company\u2019s ships called the Pacific Aria.  Coincidence?  I don\u2019t think so.  From their home to portside would be a 5 minute flight for this intelligent creature.<br \/>\nDid Harri plan to go along, and got the wrong ship?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-02-01\/harri-galah-gets-private-cabin-after-nz-cruise-ship-discovery\/9383496\"><strong>Harri\u2019s story<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.<\/p>\n<p>Further, I wrote last week that my brother had died.  Here is a link to his story in the San Jose Mercury News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/mercurynews\/obituary.aspx?pid=188037079\"><strong>My brother Dick<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week\u2019s Not So Nasty News . . . . from John. &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Item #1: Thrilled Ginger, Sporty, Posh, Scary, and Baby (shown &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=6686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<em>TW\u2019NSNN<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-1JQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}