{"id":29,"date":"2006-09-06T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/archives\/29"},"modified":"2011-03-24T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T08:08:22","slug":"animals-lose-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/29","title":{"rendered":"Animals lose a&nbsp;friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/irwin-150x150.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Irwin1\" title=\"Irwin1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" \/>Some people might say that Steve Irwin is a crazy SOB with what he does with animals and that it might not be in their best interests&#8230; but for all it&#39;s worth, I think Steve Irwin was passionate about his work, animals and saving the environment.&nbsp; Irwin dies on Monday.&nbsp; He died doing the thing that he loved most, being up close and personal with his animal friends. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So intribute to the Crocodile Hunter, here are some quotes from the crazy, yet caring, Australian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/irwin2-150x150.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Irwin2\" title=\"Irwin2\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>&quot;<span class=\"body\">Crikey, mate. You&#39;re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&quot;<span class=\"body\">The only animals I&#39;m not comfortable with are parrots, but I&#39;m learning as I go. I&#39;m getting better and better at &#39;em. I really am.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&quot;<span class=\"body\">You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it&#39;ll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it&#39;s not even funny.<\/span>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<span class=\"body\">I have no fear of losing my life &#8211; if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.&quot;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>You can find more about Steve Irwin at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Irwin\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Irwin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people might say that Steve Irwin is a crazy SOB with what he does with animals and that it might not be in their best interests&#8230; but for all it&#39;s worth, I think Steve Irwin was passionate about his work, animals and saving the environment.&nbsp; Irwin dies on Monday.&nbsp; He died doing the thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Animals lose a&nbsp;friend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[3,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}