{"id":4224,"date":"2007-03-01T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:50:29","slug":"chinchilla_foll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4224","title":{"rendered":"Chinchilla follies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gloria the chinchilla continues to be a big hit around here. And why not? Small, fuzzy, lovable, and (for a rodent) pretty smart. Compared to our guinea pig Trinity, Gloria is a rocket scientist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Joe is absolutely NUTS over her. Takes her out, carries her around, let&#8217;s her run loose in the back room (bad idea &#8211; tiny poops, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she is cute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10485\" title=\"Chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_003.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_003-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/gloria_close_up.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10486\" title=\"Gloria_close_up\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/gloria_close_up.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/gloria_close_up-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trick tonight was to lure her out with raisins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10487\" title=\"Chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_008.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/chinchilla_tim_gma_coat_pic_2273107_008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria the chinchilla continues to be a big hit around here. And why not? Small, fuzzy, lovable, and (for a rodent) pretty smart. Compared to our guinea pig Trinity, Gloria is a rocket scientist. And Joe is absolutely NUTS over her. Takes her out, carries her around, let&#8217;s her run loose in the back room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10488,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/10488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}