{"id":132,"date":"2004-01-21T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2004-01-21T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T15:25:56","slug":"things-are-seldom-what-they-seem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2004\/01\/things-are-seldom-what-they-seem\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are seldom what they seem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems that I may have spoken prematurely in the matter of Churchill&#8217;s parrot. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/3414323.stm\">The BBC<\/a> report that the staff at Chartwell, Churchill&#8217;s country estate, have gone through their photographs and records and found no evidence that he ever owned a parrot. <a href=\"http:\/\/straitstimes.asia1.com.sg\/topstories\/story\/0,4386,231230,00.html\">The Straits Times<\/a> has a story that Lady Soames, Churchill&#8217;s daughter, says the great man only had an African Grey, and that it never talked.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jumpstation.ca\/recroom\/comedy\/python\/petshop.html\">Norwegian Blue? Beautiful plumage!<\/a> I&#8217;ll have more on this story as events warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems that I may have spoken prematurely in the matter of Churchill&#8217;s parrot. The BBC report that the staff at Chartwell, Churchill&#8217;s country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-28","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}