{"id":2479,"date":"2015-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.wordpress.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2016-09-28T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:28:47","slug":"happy-birthday-herbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>This is my betta fish, Herbert.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/img_1661.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2480\" src=\"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/img_1661.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_1661\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought Herbert from a pet store in the fall of 2011. He\u2019s been a good companion fish ever since, swimming around in his aquarium and adding a touch of something alive to my apartment.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a <em>really old fish<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a hard time finding definitive information on betta fish lifespan. Various sources on the Internet disagree with each other, but most say that a betta should live two to three years in captivity. Herbert was already an adult fish when I bought him, so he should about four by now. I\u2019ve gotten to the point where I get up in the morning and check if my fish is alive. This fish just won\u2019t die.<\/p>\n<p>So congratulations, Herbert, and many happy returns.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my betta fish, Herbert. I bought Herbert from a pet store in the fall of 2011. He\u2019s been a good companion fish ever since, swimming around in his aquarium and adding a touch of something alive to my apartment. He is also a really old fish. I\u2019ve had a hard time finding definitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[95,96,312,631,757],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-betta","tag-betta-fish","tag-fish","tag-pet","tag-siamese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamtrainsandghosts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}