{"id":7222,"date":"2019-09-26T19:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T23:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2019-09-26T19:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T23:12:37","slug":"bird-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=7222","title":{"rendered":"Bird Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m reading Mark Twain&#8217;s &#8220;A Tramp Abroad&#8221; and I came across this gem today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;A (blue) jay hasn&#8217;t got any more principle than a Congressman.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As appropriate today in Indiana&#8217;s 3rd Congressional District as it was in 1880 when Twain wrote it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although that does seem to be a harsh comparison for the blue jay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/BLUJAY101206_12-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7224\"\/><figcaption>Noisy Ill-tempered Bird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1200px-Jim_Banks_official_portrait-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7223\"\/><figcaption>Unprincipled Sycophant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Mark Twain&#8217;s &#8220;A Tramp Abroad&#8221; and I came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}