{"id":373,"date":"2025-05-19T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayspace.wayzata.k12.mn.us\/blogs\/rattyspeaks\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-05-18T23:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:32:45","slug":"the-rat-is-on-vacation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/the-rat-is-on-vacation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rat is on Vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/the-rat-is-on-vacation-2\/attachment\/140\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ratty-vacation1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"360,336\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ratty-vacation1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ratty-vacation1-300x280.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ratty-vacation1.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-140\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ratty-vacation1.jpg\" alt=\"ratty-vacation1\" width=\"360\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, my friends in Mrs. Mclaughlin&#8217;s class, Raston A. Rat is on vacation!\u00a0 I took a long flight on RodentAir, and now I&#8217;m in Hawaii, sipping a Hamster Slushie and dipping my ratty toes in the surf.\u00a0 I hope you like my flowered swim trunks and my ratly cool shades!\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun here, at the Ritzy Rodent Resort&#8211;there was even a karaoke contest on the patio this morning, and I sang my newest song (&#8220;Cruel, Cruel Felines&#8221;).\u00a0 I was hardly nervous at all!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all your good advice about sports and toe cramps.\u00a0 I have decided to go out for the sport of Beaching.\u00a0 Beaching is a pretty easy sport; you just have to sit on a beach and now and then splash in the water.\u00a0 You might not think this is much of a sport, but seriously, jumping around on the keyboard and sending all those messages to you was quite a workout!\u00a0 So even though I had a ratastic time blogging with all you fifth graders, I think it&#8217;s time to give my sore ratty paws a break.<\/p>\n<p>So to all you wonderful kids who have been blogging with me recently, I bid a sweet rodent farewell&#8230; how you brightened my gloomy, ratty days!\u00a0 Take care, be kind to any rodents you meet, and do yourselves a favor&#8211; WATCH OUT FOR CATS!!<\/p>\n<p>love, Ratty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, my friends in Mrs. Mclaughlin&#8217;s class, Raston A. Rat is on vacation!\u00a0 I took a long flight on RodentAir, and now I&#8217;m in Hawaii, sipping a Hamster Slushie and dipping my ratty toes in the surf.\u00a0 I hope you like my flowered swim trunks and my ratly cool shades!\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun here, at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rastons-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xmb3-61","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnejonell.com\/ratblog\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}