{"id":40,"date":"2011-07-20T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombc.turbofool.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-07-20T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T09:00:40","slug":"the-bird-is-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/07\/20\/the-bird-is-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bird is the Word&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by reader\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/donald-chesebro\">Donald Chesebro<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last<\/strong> night, a very loud bird outside my bedroom window kept me awake late and woke me several times through the night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This<\/strong> morning, while checking e-mail and listening to the BBC&#8217;s World News Hour on my local NPR station, I was thinking of searching for a website with bird calls so I could try to figure out what kind of bird was being such a nuisance. Before I got to that, I suddenly heard the bird&#8217;s call on my radio. \u00a0It was almost exactly the same sound I&#8217;d been forced to listen to for hours. \u00a0The BBC was doing a report about the declining population of the nightingale in England. \u00a0They can have mine!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, a very loud bird outside my bedroom window kept me awake late and woke me several times through the night.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, while checking e-mail and listening to the BBC&#8217;s World News Hour on my local NPR station, I was thinking of searching for a website with bird calls so I could try to figure out what kind of bird was being such a nuisance. Before I got to that, I suddenly heard the bird&#8217;s call on my radio.  It was almost exactly the same sound I&#8217;d been forced to listen to for hours.  The BBC was doing a report about the declining population of the nightingale in England.  They can have mine!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[471,472,473,454,474,446],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-bbc-world-news","tag-birds","tag-donald-chesebro","tag-email","tag-nightingale","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}