{"id":1901,"date":"2012-05-11T03:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2023-07-13T23:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:47:44","slug":"pigeon-undaunted-by-owl-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/pigeon-undaunted-by-owl-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon undaunted by owl statue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/7174376452\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5452\/7174376452_5ff8d7ca5e.jpg\" alt=\"Pigeon undaunted by owl statue\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Call me crazy, but I kinda like pigeons. They&#8217;re simple, awkward creatures that &#8212; despite the bad press they get &#8212; don&#8217;t really hurt anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes, I&#8217;d probably feel differently if I owned a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While we may sit back and laugh at the apparent stupidity of the pigeons, sometimes I question whether we&#8217;re any less stupid. After all, our attempts to dissuade them with owl statues are <em>never<\/em> effective. If we&#8217;re so smart, shouldn&#8217;t we have learned this by now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Pigeon spotted at Capp and 16th.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me crazy, but I kinda like pigeons. They&#8217;re simple, awkward creatures that &#8212; despite the bad press they get &#8212; don&#8217;t really hurt anyone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Pigeon undaunted by owl statue - MrEricSir.com","description":"Call me crazy, but I kinda like pigeons. They're simple, awkward creatures that -- despite the bad press they get -- don't really hurt anyone. And yes, I'd prob"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,38,375,1422,23],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-16thmission","tag-photos","tag-pigeons","tag-rant","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10189,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/10189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}