{"id":580,"date":"2005-02-22T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=580"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"pandas-in-the-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/02\/pandas-in-the-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandas in the rainforest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the grocery store recently looking for some handsoap. SoftSoap has this &#8220;Rainforest&#8221; line of soaps: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softsoap.ca\/english\/brands\/rainforest.shtml\">http:\/\/www.softsoap.ca\/english\/brands\/rainforest.shtml<\/a>. This consists of 3 animals, a monkey, a parrot, and a panda. <\/p>\n<p>Wait, a panda?<lj-cut><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/Panda-lg.jpg\" alt=\"Panda in Rainforest\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s consult <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>The Giant Panda lives in mountainous regions, like Sichuan and Tibet.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to ask <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\">The Smithsonian Zoo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Giant pandas &#8230; live in temperate-zone bamboo forests in central China.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\">WWF<\/a> says, a panda IS their mascot, they should know:<\/p>\n<p><i>today giant pandas are confined to temperate forest scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern China<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So what are pandas doing in a Rainforest collection? Is this company especially stupid or is it a common misconception that pandas live in rainforests?<\/p>\n<p>The rainforest has more interesting animals than any other habitat I know of, and they choose an animal that isn&#8217;t even in it!<\/p>\n<p>The worst part? This is soap for kids. This teaches our kids that pandas live in rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>*puts head on desk and groans*<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the grocery store recently looking for some handsoap. SoftSoap has this &#8220;Rainforest&#8221; line of soaps: http:\/\/www.softsoap.ca\/english\/brands\/rainforest.shtml. This consists of 3 animals, a monkey, a parrot, and a panda. Wait, a panda? Let&#8217;s consult wikipedia: The Giant Panda lives in mountainous regions, like Sichuan and Tibet. I&#8217;m going to ask The Smithsonian Zoo: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}