{"id":5902,"date":"2008-09-26T17:06:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T00:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/5902\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T00:06:40","slug":"hong-kong-monkey-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5902","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong monkey show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once, when in Hong Kong in the late 1980s, my brother and I saw a comically terrible circus with a drunken monkey trainer, with monkeys who clearly hated him.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d yell at them in Chinese.  They screeched at him angrily as they they rode little bicycles around while wearing opera masks.<\/p>\n<p>At one point one of them deliberately pooped on the cement walk that was the stage.<\/p>\n<p>You know how when you go to a zoo you feel slightly guilty to see the animals in cages, and wonder if they are being treated well?  And you tell yourself little lies to feel less guilty?<\/p>\n<p>Well there was no way around this one.  Those monkeys genuinely hated that guy.<\/p>\n<p>My parents were mortified.  The whole thing makes me smile when I think of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, when in Hong Kong in the late 1980s, my brother and I saw a comically terrible circus with a drunken monkey trainer, with monkeys who clearly hated him. He&#8217;d yell at them in Chinese. They screeched at him angrily as they they rode little bicycles around while wearing opera masks. At one point one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}