{"id":25050,"date":"2017-04-12T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25050"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:02:36","slug":"the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/12\/the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BIRDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Two nights,<\/strong><\/span> two swallows. They were coming in through the chimney. I hate that \u2013 birds in the house. My wife hates it worse.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are good with birds in their house, but I run around with a towel and swing at the birds, and they dive-bomb at me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Everything <\/strong><strong>in<\/strong><\/span> the house started to go bad that night. The kitchen sink trap leaked, and there was a rug in Jack\u2019s old bedroom that got stinky mildewy. Rain came in the window onto the rug. We had to put a big fan in there for days. And\u00a0 the washing machine broke; I overstuffed it and broke the motor.<\/p>\n<p>But the worst was the birds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25073\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bird-in-house-color-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"bird in house color\" width=\"350\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bird-in-house-color-300x254.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bird-in-house-color-768x651.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bird-in-house-color.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two nights, two swallows. They were coming in through the chimney. I hate that \u2013 birds in the house. My wife hates it worse. Some people are good with birds in their house, but I run around with a towel and swing at the birds, and they dive-bomb at me. Everything in the house started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25077,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions\/25077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}