{"id":8086,"date":"2013-05-18T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T21:47:19","slug":"adopt-a-salamander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2013\/05\/adopt-a-salamander\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt a Salamander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For each Ubuntu release I spend a little time finding a toy or other representation of the codename animal to use at booths, Ubuntu Hours and other events. I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=6293\">Quetzals and Pangolins here<\/a> and you may have seen Raring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pleia2\/8514032846\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When the salamander came up I was confident that a toy would be easy to find, and indeed they were! Even better, I found that the World Wildlife Fund offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/gifts.worldwildlife.org\/gift-center\/gifts\/Species-Adoptions\/Hellbender-Salamander.aspx\">$50 Hellbender Salamander Adoption Kit<\/a> that ships with 2 plush salamanders! Mine arrived yesterday, I&#8217;ll be keeping one to use at our events and will find a way to give away the other (perhaps as part of the Ubuntu Women contest we&#8217;re planning? Or at some LoCo event?).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/wwf_salamander.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/wwf_salamander_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Event decoration + helping to save the actual animal, hooray!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it is a release late, but while I was in M\u00c3\u00a9rida, Mexico we stopped in to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frommers.com\/destinations\/meridamexico\/S29023.html\">Miniaturas<\/a> where I picked up some adorable quetzal earrings:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/quetzal_earrings.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/quetzal_earrings_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll wear them to our <a href=\"http:\/\/loco.ubuntu.com\/events\/ubuntu-california\/2421-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco\/\">San Francisco Ubuntu Hour on June 12th<\/a>, and bring along the salamander!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For each Ubuntu release I spend a little time finding a toy or other representation of the codename animal to use at booths, Ubuntu Hours and other events. I wrote about Quetzals and Pangolins here and you may have seen Raring here. When the salamander came up I was confident that a toy would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","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=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12101,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/12101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}