{"id":682,"date":"2018-11-29T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=682"},"modified":"2019-01-10T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:07:25","slug":"wombat-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/11\/29\/wombat-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wombat facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A. The name &#8220;News For Wombats&#8221; is a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montypython.net\/scripts\/news.php\">a Monty Python bit<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-46258616\">Wombats poop cubes<\/a>. There&#8217;s a recent study that&#8217;s been discussed widely on the internet about the mechanism by which they do this.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C. When I picked it as my Twitter handle, I didn&#8217;t realize how hard it would be to draw a wombat. The shaggy wombat sketch was my only successful attempt for the longest time. My attempts would end up looking like a bear, a monkey, or (sometimes) a pig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After much practice, I&#8217;ve gotten a bit better. So today I updated the header graphic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"364\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wombat05.png?resize=364%2C364&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"shaggy wombat sketch\" class=\"wp-image-683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wombat05.png?w=364&amp;ssl=1 364w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wombat05.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wombat05.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 85vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption>The sketch that served as the blog header for a long time.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. The name &#8220;News For Wombats&#8221; is a reference to a Monty Python bit. B. Wombats poop cubes. There&#8217;s a recent study that&#8217;s been discussed widely on the internet about the mechanism by which they do this. C. When I picked it as my Twitter handle, I didn&#8217;t realize how hard it would be to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/11\/29\/wombat-facts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wombat facts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-nfw","tag-wombats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-b0","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}