{"id":2175668,"date":"2024-05-31T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2175668"},"modified":"2024-05-31T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:59:11","slug":"may-31st-is-world-parrot-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/may-31st-is-world-parrot-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May 31st Is World Parrot Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a parrot, I cluck I squawk.<br \/>\nI have a will of my own.<br \/>\nAnd I do not always \u00a0talk.<\/p>\n<p>I eat like a piggy, throwing \u00a0food all about.<br \/>\nIn the wild that is what we do, so new plants will sprout.<br \/>\nSometimes I am broody, sometimes I take a nip or two.<br \/>\nSometimes I want to be alone, sometimes I want to be with \u00a0you.<br \/>\nI need a lot of interaction and exercise.<br \/>\nIf \u00a0left in a dark, dirty cage, my spirit dies.<br \/>\nI might pluck, I might scream.<\/p>\n<p>I belong in nature, though my habitats are being destroyed.<br \/>\nI am not a decoration, I am not a toy.<br \/>\nI could live a long life, many decades, too.<\/p>\n<p>Please think very carefully and decide if parrot guardianship really is for you.<br \/>\nOr else from place to place I will go and never feel secure.<br \/>\nIf \u00a0you take me home, please \u00a0be 10000% sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a parrot, I cluck I squawk. I have a will of my own. And I do not always \u00a0talk. I eat like a piggy, throwing \u00a0food all about. In the wild that is what we do, so new plants will sprout. Sometimes I am broody, sometimes I take a nip or two. Sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2195,"featured_media":2175669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,6985,5],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-2175668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-parrot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}