{"id":724,"date":"2020-10-29T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T06:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2020-10-29T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T06:57:04","slug":"the-wings-of-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/the-wings-of-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The wings of a bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The wild animal park near our house has an aviary that is enclosed so that the birds don\u2019t fly away. Outside of the enclosure, there are flamingos. I asked the groundskeepers why they\u2019re not afraid of the flamingos flying away and they said because they clipped their wings. Looking at the flamingos, I couldn\u2019t tell. They said they only need to clip a few key feathers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few key feathers. The difference between being able to fly or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find those feathers. You were meant to fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wild animal park near our house has an aviary that is enclosed so that the birds don\u2019t fly away. Outside of the enclosure, there are flamingos. I asked the groundskeepers why they\u2019re not afraid of the flamingos flying away and they said because they clipped their wings. Looking at the flamingos, I couldn\u2019t tell. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/the-wings-of-a-bird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wings of a bird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}