{"id":794,"date":"2008-04-25T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T23:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2008-04-25T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T23:13:27","slug":"really-random-thought-pic-a-nic-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"REALLY Random Thought: Pic-a-nic baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when I let my mind wander.<\/p>\n<p>So, if his theme music is to be believed, Yogi Bear sleeps until noon, but has every picnic basket in Jellystone Park by sunset.  Last time I checked, picnics are traditionally a lunchtime affair.  And as we all know, Yogi is pretty civilized &#8211; sure, he doesn&#8217;t wear clothes beyond his shirt collar, green tie, and snappy hat, but you&#8217;d have to presume he at least showers and brushes his teeth, which would take at least 15-20 minutes.  Assuming the tie&#8217;s not a clip-on, by the time he completes his look and ventures out of his cave, it&#8217;s at least 12:30 PM.  So&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Jellystone Park starting some kind of happenin&#8217; &#8216;late-afternoon&#8217; picnicking trend?<\/li>\n<li>Are the lunchtime picnickers just really lazy, and allowing their food to spoil? (And, in that instance, is Yogi actually doing them a favor?)<\/li>\n<li>Is Jellystone Park frequented by environmental activists, insistent on ignoring Ranger Smith and feeding the animals anyway (intentionally allowing Yogi to steal their baskets)?<\/li>\n<li>Is there some strange time\/space phenomenon at the entrance to Yogi&#8217;s cave, causing it to be noon inside and dawn outside?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>William of Ockham tells us that all other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.  Which means, of course, that&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yogi Bear is a ninja.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think about it.  He&#8217;d have to be really fast to get all of those baskets.  He&#8217;s constantly giving Ranger Smith the slip.  He speaks in riddles. And bears are the #1 threat to America.  It all adds up.<\/p>\n<p>You think about it.  <strong>Think. About. It.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when I let my mind wander. So, if his theme music is to be believed, Yogi Bear sleeps until noon, but has every picnic basket in Jellystone Park by sunset. Last time I checked, picnics are traditionally a lunchtime affair. And as we all know, Yogi is pretty civilized &#8211; sure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[41,43,44,55],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-tv","tag-ninjas","tag-pop-culture","tag-really-random-thought","tag-yogi-bear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-cO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}