{"id":150,"date":"2007-03-27T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T04:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/pandas-are-getting-into-publishing\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T16:22:48","slug":"pandas-are-getting-into-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/asianculture\/pandas-are-getting-into-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandas Are Getting into Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/pandas.gif\" title=\"pandas by tom\" alt=\"pandas by tom\" height=\"167\" width=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Publishers have been accused of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/what-does-this-woman-believe-in\/\" title=\"judith regan\">pandering to an ignorant public<\/a>. The time has come to panda to them instead. And researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are helping to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about giant pandas is they&#8217;re not just cute they&#8217;re also big. And they eat a lot of bamboo. Enough to produce about a hundred pounds of dung daily. That will fertilize a pretty big bamboo grove, which will support more pandas, which &#8230;. Anyway, I image the panda reserve researchers were getting a little tired of pulling on their hip boots every time they headed into the grove.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the story comes back to publishing. They are turning the panda poop into &#8220;high-quality paper.&#8221; In fact, according to Liu Jun, a researcher at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in Sichuan province, the panda poop should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17799869\/\" title=\"panda poop\" target=\"_blank\">even better for making paper than elephant dung<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So soon you may be able to help to save the environment by buying books printed on panda dung. And help those idlers the pandas to be gainfully employed.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/Animals\/PhotoGallery\/GiantPandas\/default.cfm\" title=\"panda photo gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Panda photo gallery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/03\/27\/panda_porn_to_encour.html\" title=\"panda breeding\">Panda Porn to Encourage Breeding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(panda drawing by tom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers have been accused of pandering to an ignorant public. The time has come to panda to them instead. And researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}