{"id":42,"date":"2006-03-24T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-12-25T22:30:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:30:04","slug":"i-am-a-total-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"I am a total idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Boston University\" alt=\"Boston University\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/images\/20060324_bu.gif\" \/>In a rather roundabout way, I found out today that the mascot of Boston University is a Boston Terrier named <a title=\"Rhett the BU Mascot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/athletics\/fans\/rhett.html\">Rhett.<\/a> My first reaction was to laugh, because if there&#8217;s a dog breed that doesn&#8217;t exactly instill fear into someone, it&#8217;s a Boston Terrier. As you might be able to tell from different posts on this site, they&#8217;re somewhat crazy little dogs with a big personality (I think both Zoey and Elsa actually believe that they&#8217;re humans). To see them used as a college mascot and drawn in a playful, yet slightly menacing way cracked me up.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it&#8217;s now my goal to buy some sort of Boston University sportswear (must have mascot on it). So yeah, it&#8217;s a totally dumb reason to like a University, but I&#8217;m going to have to say that I&#8217;m definitely rooting for BU whenever I have the chance. Our dogs wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather roundabout way, I found out today that the mascot of Boston University is a Boston Terrier named Rhett. My first reaction was to laugh, because if there&#8217;s a dog breed that doesn&#8217;t exactly instill fear into someone, it&#8217;s a Boston Terrier. As you might be able to tell from different posts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}