{"id":38320,"date":"2020-12-15T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=38320"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:56:23","slug":"oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e05-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=38320","title":{"rendered":"Oldfilibuster\u2019s Rhyme &#038; Reason \u2013 E05 \u2013 The Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;light=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Foldfilibusters-rhyme-reason-e05-the-birds%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that\u00a0Charles Darwin had a go at eating owl? While at Cambridge University he was a member of\u00a0the &#8220;Gourmet Club,&#8221; which met once a week to eat animals not often found on menus. He found the old brown owl \u2018indescribable\u2019. I am thinking that any of us who frequented greasy spoon takeaways in the 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s probably consumed animals not normally seen on menus either. Unlike Darwin, we had the luxury of batter and curry sauce to disguise our brown owl.\u00a0As an erstwhile twitcher I respect the \u2018clevericity\u2019 of our winged comrades, like Rabbit in\u00a0<em>Winnie the Pooh<\/em>, especially bespectacled\u00a0and erudite ones like Owl. \u201cYou and I have brains,\u201d he says. \u201cThe others have fluff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that\u00a0Charles Darwin had a go at eating owl? While at Cambridge University he was a member of\u00a0the &#8220;Gourmet Club,&#8221; which met once a week to eat animals not often found on menus. He found the old brown owl \u2018indescribable\u2019. I am thinking that any of us who frequented greasy spoon takeaways in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldfilibusters-rhyme-reason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38322,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320\/revisions\/38322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}