{"id":1447,"date":"2007-03-17T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T01:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2007-03-17T22:15:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T01:15:57","slug":"i-think-i-saw-a-pussycat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"I think I saw a pussycat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmiller.org\/?p=231\">Paul Miller&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1448' rel='attachment wp-att-1448' title='Green parakeets having a ball'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/pa_ra_keet_s.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Green parakeets having a ball' \/><\/a>, I was reminded that I saw the same birds flying around freely in Deventer last year. Apparantly, these birds enjoyed their freedom by hanging around the cages of their &#8216;jailed&#8217; cousins in a bird park close to the Deventer railway station. The BBC has an article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/3869815.stm\">about that too<\/a>, and apparently these birds seem to survive because of the string of mild European Winters.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">The population boom has been put down to a series of mild winters, a lack of natural predators, food being available from humans and that there are now enough parrots for a wider range of breeding partners\n<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking of a certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2H6DSoqZz_s\">Monty Python sketch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Paul Miller&#8217;s, , I was reminded that I saw the same birds flying around freely in Deventer last year. Apparantly, these birds enjoyed their freedom by hanging around the cages of their &#8216;jailed&#8217; cousins in a bird park close &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1447\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}