{"id":3118,"date":"2012-06-19T11:06:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2012-06-19T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:06:55","slug":"398th-post-dr-dolittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/398th-post-dr-dolittle\/","title":{"rendered":"398th Post : Dr Dolittle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I confess I have never read the book or seen any of the films. However today I was privileged to witness one of my chinese students (Tom) trying to pretend he had read the book for a book report. When I asked what was special about Dr Dolittle and animals he replied “He was their dentist”.<\/p>\n

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Who can honestly say they have never wanted to floss a tiger?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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To be a dentist to the animals, just imagine it
\nExtracting wisdom teeth from a chimpanzee
\nImagine descaling for a tiger, polishing for a cheetah
\nWhat a neat achievement that would be.<\/p>\n

If we could check all the animals, prevent gum diseases
\nRemove stains caused by drinking tea.
\nWe’d study elephants enamel, buffalo and beagle,
\nAnd charge them all quite a hefty fee.<\/p>\n

We would do root canals for polar bears,
\nAnd we could do a crown for a kangaroo.
\nIf people asked can we do a crown for a rhinoceros,
\nWe’d say, “Of courserous, can’t you?”<\/p>\n

If we could be a dentist to the animals, give them fillings
\nDrain any tooth abscess of puss
\nIf we could cure all the animals, protect their enamels,
\nBrush and floss all the teeth of the animals,
\nAnd they could smile with minty fresh breath to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only two more days left to enjoy Tom’s company…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[665,664],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-dentists","tag-dr-dolittle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}