{"id":16003,"date":"2024-05-27T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=16003"},"modified":"2024-04-14T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:19:48","slug":"white-phosphorus-misadventures20-rats-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=16003","title":{"rendered":"White phosphorus misadventures#20 Rat&#8217;s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13557\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4-300x296.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4-300x296.png 300w, http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p4.png 322w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A brief but telling story from the <strong>9th May 1997 Derry Journal. <\/strong>Rats get a bad deal and in my opinion are unfairly regarded as disease carrying vermin. AW of course made white phosphorus for this market with the chemical being used in poison baits. I&#8217;m not sure why this banned material would have been used in the story from 1997 however as the use was now widely illegal having been outlawed in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>A dream home was allegedly burnt down when a rat that had swallowed p4 laced poison set a thatched roof on fire. No sympathy from me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rattie3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16008\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rattie3-300x128.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rattie3-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rattie3-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rattie3.png 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/firerat.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16009\" src=\"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/firerat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief but telling story from the 9th May 1997 Derry Journal. Rats get a bad deal and in my opinion are unfairly regarded as disease carrying vermin. AW of course made white phosphorus for this market with the chemical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=16003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16010,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions\/16010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}