{"id":166,"date":"2004-04-20T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2004-04-20T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T19:37:00","slug":"166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cougars in Cornwall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports of out-of-place large cats in Britain are most common in the the southwest, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/cornwall\/3641957.stm\">says the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cougars in Cornwall Reports of out-of-place large cats in Britain are most common in the the southwest, says the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-166","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":145,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=145","url_meta":{"origin":166,"position":0},"title":"A kinder, gentler Anglo-Saxon invasion?\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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