{"id":28498,"date":"2026-06-14T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28498"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:39:00","slug":"herpetology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28498","title":{"rendered":"Herpetology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only political garb in my current wardrobe is a t-shirt that says \u201cTalarico 2028\u201d in big bold print. It&#8217;s something that is fun to wear around New York City, but I suspect it could get me shot in those parts of the country where they&#8217;ve been taken in by the convicted criminal in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Miller, the special advisor to the president, has questioned Talarico&#8217;s sexuality. Apparently a human male who is capable of compassion and kindness seems incomprehensible to Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m starting to wonder whether it is not the male part that is causing confusion, but the human part. To be fair, it is very impressive to try to understand the gender of an individual of a different species, and we have to give Miller credit for trying.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is making a valiant effort, but seems to be venturing into unknown territory here. For example, I would never attempt to make a guess as to Miller&#8217;s gender, because I am not a herpetologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only political garb in my current wardrobe is a t-shirt that says \u201cTalarico 2028\u201d in big bold print. It&#8217;s something that is fun to wear around New York City, but I suspect it could get me shot in those parts of the country where they&#8217;ve been taken in by the convicted criminal in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Herpetology&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28499,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498\/revisions\/28499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}