{"id":91,"date":"2004-02-02T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T14:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/02\/02\/the_parrot_part_ii\/"},"modified":"2004-02-02T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2004-02-02T14:36:34","slug":"the_parrot_part_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/02\/02\/the_parrot_part_ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parrot, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Winston Churchill&#8217;s daughter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/archives\/000170.html\">Charlie the Parrot<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/3417353.stm\">fraud<\/a>.<br \/>\nLady Soames says that the Churchill family <i>did <\/i>have a parrot, but a different one, for a few years, but the idea that Churchill taught the bird to swear at Nazis is, and I quote, &#8220;too tiresome for words&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Winston Churchill&#8217;s daughter, Charlie the Parrot is a fraud. Lady Soames says that the Churchill family did have a parrot, but a different one, for a few years, but the idea that Churchill taught the bird to swear at Nazis is, and I quote, &#8220;too tiresome for words&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}