{"id":135,"date":"2007-04-27T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/sheep-sold-as-poodles"},"modified":"2007-04-27T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T10:37:36","slug":"sheep-sold-as-poodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/sheep-sold-as-poodles","title":{"rendered":"Sheep sold as poodles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friends often think that I make up some of the stories I tell them. You can&#8217;t make these things up. I don&#8217;t have that much imagination. For example, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/26\/sheep_sold_as_poodle.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of Japanese people have apparently been scammed into buying &#8220;poodles&#8221; that are actually sheep with fancy haircuts. The scam was uncovered after actress Maiko Kawakami showed a photo of her pet poodle on TV and commented that it &#8220;didn&#8217;t bark and refused to eat dog food,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pictures are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?in_article_id=46730&amp;in_page_id=34\">here<\/a>. One of the commenters there asks whether this is what is meant by a sheepdog.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/26\/sheep_sold_as_poodle.html\">boing-boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\">Update:<\/font> Hmmm&#8230; Taste of my own medicine. Normally, people forward me all kinds of internet crap, and I have to tell them it is a hoax. Now I got the same thing done to me. In the comments below, MJ points out that this is a hoax. Snopes (one of my favorite sites on the internet) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/critters\/lurkers\/poodlesheep.asp\">officially debunked the story<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/article.aspx?id=263447\"><\/a>. Serves me right for being too credulous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends often think that I make up some of the stories I tell them. You can&#8217;t make these things up. I don&#8217;t have that much imagination. For example, see this: Thousands of Japanese people have apparently been scammed into buying &#8220;poodles&#8221; that are actually sheep with fancy haircuts. The scam was uncovered after actress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/humor\/sheep-sold-as-poodles\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheep sold as poodles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}