{"id":5232,"date":"2018-01-31T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2018-01-31T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:27:01","slug":"im-not-sure-whether-to-cheer-or-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=5232","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not sure whether to cheer or weep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/woman-denied-emotional-support-peacock-on-united-flight\/ar-BBIti2U?li=BBnba9O&#038;ocid=HPCDHP\">A fucking peacock.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you FUCKING KIDDING?!<\/p>\n<p>An emotional support PEACOCK?!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like pea fowl in general, and the cocks are absolutely stunning.  But my own experience with them is that they&#8217;re temperamental bastards, they bite like alligators, and they make the most godawful sounds at sudden and random intervals.<\/p>\n<p>HOW DOES THAT SUPPORT ANYONE WHO IS EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE ENOUGH TO NEED TO TRAVEL WITH THE BEAST?!<\/p>\n<p>(slap, slap, slap!  pantpantpantpantpant)  Okay, I&#8217;m better now.  Phew!<\/p>\n<p>You also have to love the fact that the woman showed up at the airport with the peacock after United told her THREE TIMES that they wouldn&#8217;t fly it.<br \/>\nSignificant props to United and Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fucking peacock. Are you FUCKING KIDDING?! An emotional support PEACOCK?! Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like pea fowl in general, and the cocks are absolutely stunning. But my own experience with them is that they&#8217;re temperamental bastards, they bite like alligators, and they make the most godawful sounds at sudden and random intervals. HOW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}