{"id":6066,"date":"2012-07-24T17:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T22:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2012-07-24T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T22:07:01","slug":"dogs-have-owners-cats-have-staff-and-birds-have-waiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6066","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Have Owners, Cats Have Staff, And Birds Have Waiters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear some thunder, check the weather radar and step out onto the front porch to watch a passing thunderstorm.  I&#8217;m no sooner out the door when suddenly this little chickadee starts sassing me. I mean it&#8217;s cursing up a storm, calling me every name in the book. Fine, thinks I, I&#8217;m interrupting dinner at the suet feeder. I&#8217;ve noticed the chickadees and tufted titmice have been at it at the suet feeder lately. So I go back inside. Doesn&#8217;t shut the little dickens <em>up. DeeDeeDeeDeeDeeDee!!!<\/em> So I go back outside thinking there might be a cat lurking. No cat, and chickadee turns up the volume.  <em>DEEDEEDEEDEEDEEDEE!!!<\/em> Sass Sass Sass Sass Sass!!!<\/p>\n<p>What the hell? Then I notice the sunflower feeder is empty. So I take it downstairs and refill it, and I swear I can still hear that little thing cursing me all the way down in the basement. I put the sunflower feeder back up, full now, and go back inside and it&#8217;s all peace and quiet in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Geeze&#8230; \u00a0 If you thought cats were demanding&#8230; \u00a0 How does something that small get that loud? \u00a0 If you&#8217;re all lungs in that little featherball then your stomach is too small to be eating all that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear some thunder, check the weather radar and step out onto the front porch to watch a passing thunderstorm. I&#8217;m no sooner out the door when suddenly this little chickadee starts sassing me. I mean it&#8217;s cursing up a storm, calling me every name in the book. Fine, thinks I, I&#8217;m interrupting dinner at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[149,55],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-casa-del-garrett","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}