{"id":153989,"date":"2015-05-19T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/19\/the-ongoing-saga-of-harker-and-the-stapler\/"},"modified":"2015-05-19T23:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:27:24","slug":"the-ongoing-saga-of-harker-and-the-stapler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/19\/the-ongoing-saga-of-harker-and-the-stapler\/","title":{"rendered":"The ongoing saga of Harker and the stapler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaijutegu.tumblr.com\/post\/116679368978\/the-ongoing-saga-of-harker-and-the-stapler\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kaijutegu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaijutegu.tumblr.com\/post\/116263804643\/the-ongoing-saga-of-harker-and-the-stapler\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kaijutegu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/e3f77c0ac8f50c7446cd917ced262d39\/tumblr_inline_nmq57lmVWW1shl8uw_540.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Every time he sees it, he balls up.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/38cd59e3697dc43b590c1546a691f36d\/tumblr_inline_nmq58maV1g1shl8uw_500.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/7b6784a74f6548abd94eda8b0a441435\/tumblr_inline_nmq598v56f1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He was nervous at first\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/5ddc3d888208d4f0e5b00339ccb7b6fe\/tumblr_inline_nmq5aeroE91shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t take him long to warm up to it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/aa173da054bc406e712d833c3c833ecb\/tumblr_inline_nmq5b8UzIG1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Pretty soon it became his best friend!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a989ec8b6e4f8c20261993f2bc6f8553\/tumblr_inline_nmq5ccoA8i1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>There was nothing the new stapler couldn\u2019t do!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/9859c981c789e76224305caeb276f618\/tumblr_inline_nmq5ja1bRp1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Including protecting him from the other stapler.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a834e6d321c2ddb3c05f21438fb7a17c\/tumblr_inline_nmq5dsYoOV1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The moral of the story?<\/p>\n<p>My snake is a weirdo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: Today I took Harker to my office, where he met another stapler.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/061f3919a9acfe9fd82369865297913f\/tumblr_inline_nmz4t3PcFL1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>He was fairly apathetic at first, but eventually they got on pretty well!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/0ca27dd19690f31611fa92705a34e062\/tumblr_inline_nmz4ueDl3n1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>This stapler was smaller than either of the others, but one thing was sure: this stapler was definitely not scary!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/b79f8e90b2ddbf54fb277d2d823530a7\/tumblr_inline_nmz4v6CD7d1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Am I any closer to understanding my snake\u2019s strange relationship with staplers?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/37eef610414e47c21f79c09065b772f3\/tumblr_inline_nmz4xm0qij1shl8uw_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><i>Absolutely not.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kaijutegu: kaijutegu: My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler. Every time he sees it, he balls up. I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary. However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler! He was nervous at first\u2026\u00a0 But it didn\u2019t take him long to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/19\/the-ongoing-saga-of-harker-and-the-stapler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The ongoing saga of Harker and the stapler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1578,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}