{"id":301,"date":"2003-03-12T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=301"},"modified":"2003-03-12T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-12T10:57:00","slug":"im-ready-for-my-close-up-mr-hitchcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-03\/301-im-ready-for-my-close-up-mr-hitchcock","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m ready for my close-up, Mr. Hitchcock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font COLOR=\"#0000FF\" SIZE=+2>This is TOTALLY WEIRD!!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I was walking up my street to the bus stop this morning, and <b>a pigeon flew by AND LANDED ON MY HEAD!<\/b> It was one of the <i>exotic-coloured<\/i> ones, mostly brown with some white patches. I raised my hand up to my head and the bird walked on to that. It stayed with me as I walked along the street for about 50 feet or so, and then flew off to an overhead wire.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope I don&#8217;t get sick from the encounter&#151; pigeons are known to carry germs and disease&#151; or from the deposit it made on my sleeve (which I scrubbed off with snow once I noticed it)!<\/p>\n<p>Any idea if there&#8217;s any kind of omen associated with having a pigeon land on your head as you walk along the street?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is TOTALLY WEIRD!!! I was walking up my street to the bus stop this morning, and a pigeon flew by AND LANDED ON MY HEAD! It was one of the exotic-coloured ones, mostly brown with some white patches. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-03\/301-im-ready-for-my-close-up-mr-hitchcock\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}