{"id":4744,"date":"2010-02-17T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T15:17:53","slug":"merp-the-tech-hamster-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/?p=4744","title":{"rendered":"Merp The Tech Hamster #4&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamster Month continues on Brainpan Leakage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/EARLY-YEARS-Runs-With-Scissors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4745\" title=\"EARLY YEARS Runs With Scissors\" src=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/EARLY-YEARS-Runs-With-Scissors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/EARLY-YEARS-Runs-With-Scissors.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/EARLY-YEARS-Runs-With-Scissors-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Image Copyright \u00a9 M. R. Sellars <\/strong>&#8211; Phyllis and I had our own set of catch phrases &#8211; some of them cliche, some not so much cliche &#8211; that we tossed around. Sometimes, we could send each other into fits of hysterics with a well timed, &#8220;Eat your broccoli, goddammit!&#8221; and nothing more. Of course, among the cliche phrases was the old standby, &#8220;running with scissors&#8221;&#8230; To us, this was like code for bucking the system. And so, one day when I felt a bit anti-establishment, so did Merp. Next thing you know, scissors were in play, cats and dogs were getting along, and anarchy broke out all over the place&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Murv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is just a moral imperative to run with the metaphorical scissors. Humorous nostalgia from author M. R. Sellars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1477,76,5,105],"tags":[2302,700,1835,2300,1286,237,602,936,2305,2306,2297,8102,719,2298,8118,3809,35,2299,2301,3808,2307,2304,293,294,2303],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family","category-humor-life","category-life","category-nostalgia-life","tag-adventures","tag-brainpan-leakage","tag-broccoli","tag-buffy-bighair","tag-cartoon","tag-cats","tag-code","tag-dogs","tag-electronics","tag-fix-it-guy","tag-hamster","tag-m-r-sellars","tag-m-r-sellers","tag-merp","tag-murv","tag-murv-sometimes","tag-nostalgia","tag-phyllis","tag-saga","tag-sellars-phyllis","tag-shirley-knot","tag-tw-typewriter-and-computer","tag-tech","tag-technician","tag-toon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}