{"id":9437,"date":"2013-02-21T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2013-02-21T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T13:42:03","slug":"bird-in-a-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/bird-in-a-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird in a Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2012-12-30-Bird.jpg\" alt=\"Bird in a Cage\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2012-12-30-Bird.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2012-12-30-Bird-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2012-12-30-Bird-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This bird startled me as I was showing a house.  It, and its cage, were hanging about 9 feet off the ground near the door connecting the finished and unfinished portions of a basement.  I didn&#8217;t see it the first time I walked past since it was well above my head.  But on the way out it was difficult to miss.  <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the home&#8217;s owner did not have the electronic base on.  It appears as though you can record messages and have the &#8220;bird&#8221; say them back &#8211; presumably when it detects either motion or sound.  I can&#8217;t imagine what would have happened if that thing had started talking to us when we entered that area of the house.  Seeing it hanging up there quietly was unnerving enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bird startled me as I was showing a house. It, and its cage, were hanging about 9 feet off the ground near the door connecting the finished and unfinished portions of a basement. I didn&#8217;t see it the first time I walked past since it was well above my head. But on the way out it was difficult to miss. Thankfully, the home&#8217;s owner did not have the electronic base on. It appears as<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/bird-in-a-cage\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1568,1575],"tags":[3311,3703,1781,1820,3705,1919,1970,4017,2712,3704],"class_list":["post-9437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying","category-fun","tag-basement","tag-bird","tag-blog","tag-buyer","tag-cage","tag-connecticut","tag-ct","tag-hartford","tag-real-estate","tag-startled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9442,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions\/9442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}