{"id":756,"date":"2010-11-05T17:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2010-11-16T21:57:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T03:57:39","slug":"more-gorilla-hyjinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/more-gorilla-hyjinx\/","title":{"rendered":"more gorilla hijinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in gorilla suits are tarnishing my good name and reputation.  First, they <a href=\"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/a-great-neighbor\/\">stand idly by<\/a> while a neighbor&#8217;s house burns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_240\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/408hampfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-240\" title=\"408hampfire\" src=\"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/408hampfire-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"gorilla watching house fire\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/408hampfire-300x133.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/408hampfire-150x66.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/408hampfire-400x177.jpg 400w, http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/408hampfire.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters wrap up at the scene of a fire at 15 M. St. in Hampton this morning, where a home was gutted by two fires this morning. Right, Wayne McGowen, who was sleeping in the basement of the house when it caught fire, watches firefighters at the scene along with neighbor Kali Burns, who was dressed as a gorilla. (JASON SCHREIBER)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s bad enough, but then on Halloween, a person in a gorilla suit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onestopnewsstand.com\/ottawa\/man-stabbed-on-halloween-by-person-in-gorilla-suit\">stabbed someone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, two people in gorilla suits (and one in a chicken suit) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmov.com\/news\/off-beat\/Bike-bandits-wore-gorilla-chicken-suits-104810089.html\">punched a kid in the head and then stole his bike<\/a>.  At least it was the chicken-man who stole the bike &#8212; the gorillas ran away.  Not very gorilla-like of them.  Even worse, why are they keeping company with evil chickens?<\/p>\n<p>I hope this isn&#8217;t a trend.  It gives gorillas a bad name.  More importantly, this might be the tip of the iceberg.  These are just the gorilla crimes that were noticed.  The smart gorillas are probably getting away with white-collar crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent spate of crimes by people in gorilla suits &#8212; not a good [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote","category-gorillas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}