{"id":175,"date":"2006-05-31T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=175"},"modified":"2006-05-31T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T15:43:47","slug":"meanwhile-in-prosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/05\/31\/meanwhile-in-prosser\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in Prosser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004337\"><\/a>Dateline Prosser, Washington:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/05\/30\/D8HUAFB00.html\">Big Rodents Overrun Washington Seniors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents say the oversized rodents are swarming through the 75-unit development of manufactured homes near the airport of this Eastern Washington town, burrowing under homes, fouling front porches with their droppings and _ according to some unconfirmed accounts _ attacking people.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you imagine what they&#8217;d do to cats?&#8221; asked Dick Bain, 78, a Wine Country resident who dispatched two of the animals with a shovel Friday. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Concerned about the droppings, which Bain said often are tracked indoors &#8220;even though you think you&#8217;ve cleaned it off,&#8221; residents say officials in the Benton-Franklin Health Department have told them there&#8217;s nothing the agency can do because the animals pose no public health risk, including the spread of infectious disease.<\/p>\n<p>Police add that town ordinances prohibit residents from shooting the critters.[&#8230;]<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The marmots are going to go on to Grandview and Benton City, and they&#8217;re going to Sunnyside and Mabton and Granger and Toppennish. And then they&#8217;re going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House! Yeaaaaagggggh!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dateline Prosser, Washington: Big Rodents Overrun Washington Seniors Residents say the oversized rodents are swarming through the 75-unit development of manufactured homes near the airport of this Eastern Washington town, burrowing under homes, fouling front porches with their droppings and _ according to some unconfirmed accounts _ attacking people. [&#8230;] &#8220;Can you imagine what they&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-hastings-and-the-4th-congressional-district-of-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}