{"id":3660,"date":"2005-01-04T06:41:44","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=473"},"modified":"2005-01-04T06:41:44","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T14:41:44","slug":"mikes-fish-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/01\/04\/mikes-fish-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike&#039;s fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"beta_fish_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/beta_fish_sm.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nQ&#8217;s mother gave me the jar and the rocks, I added the water, and for two weeks my ersatz aquarium sat otherwise empty on my kitchen counter. Then one day, just before Christmas, I turned around and there was a Betta fish in it. I&#8217;m thinking of adding a wall safe to my study. Did you know that Beta is a misspelling of Betta, which comes from the scientific name Betta splendens?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/beta_fish.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q&#8217;s mother gave me the jar and the rocks, I added the water, and for two weeks my ersatz aquarium sat otherwise empty on my kitchen counter. Then one day, just before Christmas, I turned around and there was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/01\/04\/mikes-fish-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}