{"id":136,"date":"2007-07-30T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T22:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/07\/30\/chinese-exports-the-real-poop\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T01:52:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T05:52:02","slug":"chinese-exports-the-real-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/07\/30\/chinese-exports-the-real-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Exports &#8212; The Real Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit grossed out to learn that &#8220;The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base has come up with a\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2007\/07\/30\/4379591-ap.html\">dung-for-profit scheme that turns droppings from the endangered species into odour-free souvenirs<\/a> ranging from bookmarks to Olympic-themed statues&#8230; .&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Such creative marketing cries out for a limerick, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Exports &#8212; The Real Poop<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Did that Chinese-made gift make you whoop?<br \/>\nI must warn you &#8212; they may have used poop.<br \/>\nI mean panda dung. Yuck!<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want giftware that&#8217;s muck?<br \/>\nWell, at least they don&#8217;t use it for soup.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more of my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/pet_humor.html\">animal related poems and humor here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit grossed out to learn that &#8220;The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base has come up with a\u00a0 dung-for-profit scheme that turns droppings from the endangered species into odour-free souvenirs ranging from bookmarks to Olympic-themed statues&#8230; .&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Such creative marketing cries out for a limerick, don&#8217;t you think? Chinese Exports &#8212; The Real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,94,28,90],"tags":[1966,1960,1963,1961,1965,1967,1968,1962,1964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}