{"id":2408,"date":"2007-01-27T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2007-01-27T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T05:47:00","slug":"2408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/3430481.stm\" title=\"Parrot's oratory stuns scientists\">BBC News reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short.<\/p>\n<p>The bird, a captive African grey called N&#8217;kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though said not to be a big fan of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_Parrot\">Monty Python<\/a><\/i> for some reason. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\">Warren Ellis<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of <i>Python<\/i> and parrots: Martin Lewis wishes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/martin-lewis\/bush-meets-monty-python_b_38371.html\" title=\"Bush Meets Monty Python\">to register a complaint<\/a>. (&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s&#8230; it&#8217;s errr&#8230; probably pining for a surge&#8230;&#8221;) Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\">Mark Evanier<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News reports: The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N&#8217;kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. Though said not to be a big fan of Monty Python &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2408\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}