{"id":2750,"date":"2005-08-12T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/08\/12\/surfs-up-for-australian-rodents\/"},"modified":"2005-08-12T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T16:03:50","slug":"surfs-up-for-australian-rodents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/surfs-up-for-australian-rodents\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf&#8217;s up for Australian rodents!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;summit=&#038;storyid=2005-08-12T134114Z_01_EIC249225_RTRIDST_0_ODD-AUSTRALIA-MICE-DC.XML\" rel=\"external\">CANBERRA (Reuters)<\/a> &#8211; Australia &#8212; land of sun, sand and &#8230; surfing mice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australian Shane Willmott is training three mice, named Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen, to surf small waves on tiny mouse-size surf boards at beaches on the country&#8217;s Gold Coast. The mice are put through rigorous bathtub training and then some have their fur dyed when it is time to hit the beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Usually if he is surfing big waves, I usually color his hair up. Because he&#8217;s white, when he gets in the whitewash it&#8217;s hard to find him,&#8221; Willmott told Australian television.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Willmott&#8217;s training, Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen &#8212; who live in miniature custom-made villas and own specially made jet skis &#8212; are proving no threat to world champion Kelly Slater just yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninemsn.video.msn.com\/video\/p.htm?mkt=en-au&#038;m=News&#038;mi=National{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}20Nine{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}20News&#038;i=110aaa63-087c-42cc-b681-e81ff10561f9&#038;p=AUnews_AUnationalninenews&#038;rf=http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/article.aspx?id=57641\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Check out the video footage!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA (Reuters) &#8211; Australia &#8212; land of sun, sand and &#8230; surfing mice? Australian Shane Willmott is training three mice, named Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen, to surf small waves on tiny mouse-size surf boards at beaches on the country&#8217;s Gold Coast. The mice are put through rigorous bathtub training and then some have their fur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}