{"id":3566,"date":"2013-03-09T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2013-03-09T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:30:56","slug":"year-of-the-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/year-of-the-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3567\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/year-of-the-snake\/yearofthesnake\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"411,645\" 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=\"yearofthesnake\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake-382x600.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3567\" alt=\"yearofthesnake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake-382x600.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake-382x600.jpg 382w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake-91x144.jpg 91w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/yearofthesnake.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/>I&#8217;m a little late for &#8216;happy new year!&#8217; but it is the year of the snake for 10 or so more months.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, the whole story of original sin\/human acquisitions of knowledge is fascinating to me.\u00a0 Thus the apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little late for &#8216;happy new year!&#8217; but it is the year of the snake for 10 or so more months. Oh, yeah, the whole story of original sin\/human acquisitions of knowledge is fascinating to me.\u00a0 Thus the apple.<\/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":[33],"tags":[49,48,91],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-drawing-2","tag-holiday","tag-new-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3221,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/stupid-snake-wordless-graphic-novel\/","url_meta":{"origin":3566,"position":0},"title":"Stupid Snake &#8211; Wordless Graphic Novel","author":"leems","date":"February 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It looked interesting and after clicking through a few pages I started from the beginning and then I couldn't stop.\u00a0 I couldn't stop watching Stupid Snake - Wordless Graphic Novel.\u00a0 It is a lovely web comic.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5354,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/10\/18\/witch-with-a-snake\/","url_meta":{"origin":3566,"position":1},"title":"Witch with a snake","author":"leems","date":"October 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"witches201410-11","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/witches201410-11-402x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9698,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/10\/06\/cloacina-and-hygeia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3566,"position":2},"title":"Cloacina and Hygeia\u00a0","author":"leems","date":"October 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Cloacina Cloacina was originally an Etruscan water goddess who was later adopted by the Romans and associated with Venus.\u00a0 She presided over the Cloaca Maxima - the great sewer of Rome and was linked to purification, cleansing, health, and hygiene.\u00a0 She kept the pipes clean. 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