{"id":630,"date":"2018-02-08T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T11:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=630"},"modified":"2018-02-08T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:26:14","slug":"i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/08\/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw02082018-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-627\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw02082018-2-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I want a hippopotamus for Christmas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While hippos are adorable, you may want to reconsider this idea between now and next Christmas. Like all wild animals, hippos aren&#8217;t ideally suited to being house pets and it wouldn&#8217;t be fair to keep them in such a small (and dry) space. In particular, if you live near campus, it would be tough to find a home for a hippo. The BC residence halls do not allow pets other than tropical fish (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BCHalls\">bit.ly\/BCHalls<\/a>) and local apartment buildings also tend to have strict limitations on the types of pets allowed. However, if you would like to admire a hippo from afar, you might follow this playlist of videos of Fiona the Hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fiona-hippo\">bit.ly\/fiona-hippo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hippos are adorable, you may want to reconsider this idea between now and next Christmas. Like all wild animals, hippos aren&#8217;t ideally suited to being house pets and it wouldn&#8217;t be fair to keep them in such a small (and dry) space. In particular, if you live near campus, it would be tough to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/08\/i-want-a-hippopotamus-for-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I want a hippopotamus for Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}