{"id":1318,"date":"2009-01-02T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2009-01-02T11:40:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T11:40:36","slug":"the-octopus-who-loves-his-mr-potato-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/the-octopus-who-loves-his-mr-potato-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">Here&#8217;s another one.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=83550&amp;in_page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=83550&amp;in_page_id=2<\/a><\/div>\n<h1>The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">Friday, January 11, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Louis the Octopus\" src=\"http:\/\/img.metro.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2008\/01\/octopusAX_450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Louis cuddles his Mr Potato Head \" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis cuddles his Mr Potato Head <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article\">Louis the octopus clearly thinks two heads are better than one when it comes to toys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">The 1.8m-wide (6ft) creature is so attached to Mr Potato Head that he turns aggressive when aquarium staff try to remove it from his tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">The giant Pacific octopus was given the toy for Christmas and has even learned to dig out food hidden in a secret box at the back of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">&#8216;He&#8217;s fascinated by it,&#8217; said Matt Slater, of the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall. &#8216;He attacks the net we use to fish the toy out every time we try to take it away.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Mr Slater added: &#8216;Octopuses are very intelligent and they like to be stimulated and busy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another one. http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=83550&amp;in_page_id=2 The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head Friday, January 11, 2008 Louis the octopus clearly thinks two heads are better than one when it comes to toys. The 1.8m-wide (6ft) creature is so attached to Mr Potato Head that he turns aggressive when aquarium staff try to remove it from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,213,223],"tags":[402,502],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-animals-other-critters","7":"category-humor","8":"category-news","9":"tag-octopus","10":"tag-wildlife","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}