{"id":2787,"date":"2015-08-29T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2025-01-08T08:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:01:25","slug":"massachusetts-youngster-learns-cruel-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/massachusetts-youngster-learns-cruel-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Youngster Learns Cruel Life Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mzillaIceCream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mzillaIceCream-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Never trust the shirt...\" class=\"wp-image-2788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mzillaIceCream-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mzillaIceCream-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mzillaIceCream.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Never trust this shirt&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>When Jackson visited the vintage arcade and skeeball courts of semi-seedy Salem Willows in late summer 2015, he fully expected his hard-whined-for ice cream to require focused defense against parent bites, ants, wharf rats, semi-domesticated sea gulls, and even his sister&#8217;s offers to help him finish. Unfortunately, he never suspected his trusted dinosaur shirt as a top dessert predator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally the Tyrannosaurus Rex on a midnight blue background is an excellent all around clothing choice; it competes favorably even with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mountain-Three-Short-Sleeve-Large\/dp\/B007I4HI1K\/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1440850303&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=wolf+shirt\">legendary three wolf t-shirt<\/a>. Comfortable, intimidating, eminently stylish, the T-Rex shirt and Jackson are constant companions, but in our fallen world all friendships have their limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This particular 3T shirt apparently draws the loyalty line at creamsicle flavored Tweety Bird ice cream treats with blueberry gumball eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesson learned, Jackson. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update #1: it happened again! TRex helped himself to Jackson&#8217;s pancakes at <em>The Ugly Mug<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pancakezilla2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pancakezilla2.jpg\" alt=\"TRex can sense syrup in the water from miles away\" class=\"wp-image-2801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pancakezilla2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pancakezilla2-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TRex can sense syrup in the water from miles away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jackson visited the vintage arcade and skeeball courts of semi-seedy Salem Willows in late summer 2015, he fully expected his hard-whined-for ice cream to require focused defense against parent bites, ants, wharf rats, semi-domesticated sea gulls, and even his sister&#8217;s offers to help him finish. Unfortunately, he never suspected his trusted dinosaur shirt as &#8230; <a title=\"Massachusetts Youngster Learns Cruel Life Lesson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/massachusetts-youngster-learns-cruel-lesson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Massachusetts Youngster Learns Cruel Life Lesson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,138,101],"tags":[197,196],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betrayal","category-ice-cream-2","category-jackson","tag-bad-dinosaurs","tag-salem-willows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mzillaIceCream.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}