{"id":12437,"date":"2019-02-04T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:09:56","slug":"hamster-venom-an-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=12437","title":{"rendered":"Hamster Venom: An Interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FADE IN:<\/p>\n<p>INT. &#8211; BATHROOM &#8211; NIGHT. JENNY sits on the toilet while MR. JEN leans on the sink, examining a near-microscopic drop of blood at the tip of one finger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JENNY<br \/>\nOh my god. It&#8217;s a hamster bite. Let it go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MR. JEN<br \/>\nI&#8217;m worried about the venom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JENNY<br \/>\nHamsters don&#8217;t have venom!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MR. JEN<br \/>\nYes, they do. Much like their natural predator the king cobra\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JENNY<br \/>\nThere is no &#8220;much like&#8221; between hamsters and king cobras! They&#8217;re nothing alike! You have to really, really generalize that down to like, &#8220;they both have eyes!&#8221; to find any similarity. Hamsters are not venomous! Plus, I&#8217;m not even sure that hamsters and king cobras exist in the wild together. I told you already that the hamster is evil and bitey and you stuck your hand in there, anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MR. JEN<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s not evil!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JENNY<br \/>\nHe runs at me to bite me! I can be opening the door to put food in his cage and he will charge at me and bite me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MR. JEN<br \/>\nHe likes me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JENNY<br \/>\nHe bit you! And now you&#8217;re worried about his venom!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MR. JEN<br \/>\nHamsters bite to show their affection. [beat] Much like the king cob\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JENNY<br \/>\nGet out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">FADE OUT<br \/>\nFIN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FADE IN: INT. &#8211; BATHROOM &#8211; NIGHT. JENNY sits on the toilet while MR. JEN leans on the sink, examining a near-microscopic drop of blood&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=12437\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hamster Venom: An Interlude<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}