{"id":762,"date":"2016-09-14T12:19:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2016-09-14T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:19:26","slug":"pets-with-mar-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/pets-with-mar-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets with MAR: Smaug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last week you met some adorable cats, and this week MAR brings you a new pet&#8211;a bearded dragon, owned by the great Lisa Favicchia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lisa Favicchia is the Managing Editor of <i>Mid-American Review<\/i> and a second-year MFA candidate in poetry at Bowling Green State University. When she is not reading or writing, she is busy pampering the dragon whom she affectionately calls Smauggles (much to his chagrin).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And now, meet Smaug!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-764\" src=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image4-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Smaug is a bearded dragon and <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Mid-American Review\u2019s<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> honorary Office Lizard. While his ancestors came from the harsh deserts of Australia, Smaug prefers spending his days in air conditioning with the <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Mid-American Review<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> staff, preferably sitting on somebody\u2019s shoulder or keeping a close eye on office proceedings from his perch on the back of his owner\u2019s chair. He enjoys digging around in office mail, licking things, and running circles around laptops. He has been very graciously received not only by the staff members of<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Mid-American Review,<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> but by the BGSU community as a whole, much to the joy of his owner who loves to bring him everywhere she goes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-763\" src=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Smaug has come a long way since his days as a starved, abused, and abandoned baby dragon to the illustrious Office Lizard you see before you today. His memoirs relating the tales of his difficult childhood and his struggle up the corporate ladder are forthcoming.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-14-at-12.18.26-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-771\" src=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-14-at-12.18.26-PM-300x224.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-09-14 at 12.18.26 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-14-at-12.18.26-PM-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-14-at-12.18.26-PM.png 927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Spain%2c-Nuremburg%2c-March-2016-cleanout-7701.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Spain%2c-Nuremburg%2c-March-2016-cleanout-770.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week you met some adorable cats, and this week MAR brings you a new pet&#8211;a bearded dragon, owned by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mar-issues","category-staff-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}