{"id":1539,"date":"2007-01-19T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/01\/19\/dead-bird-verdict-cold-and-bugs\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:20:21","slug":"dead-bird-verdict-cold-and-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/dead-bird-verdict-cold-and-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Bird Verdict? Cold and Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=177947\">News8Austin<\/a> and some AP stories I&#8217;ve seen floating around today, it was parasites and an overnight ten degree temperature drop (doesn&#8217;t that happen all the time around here?) that killed 63 birds and caused downtown to effectively shut down last Monday. It&#8217;s been interesting to hear the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/01\/11\/11deadbirds.html\">conspiracy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=177604\">theories<\/a>. I guess that rumor I heard about the poisoning wasn&#8217;t true. Not surprisingly, the  shutdown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/01\/09\/9deadbirds.htmlhttp:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/01\/09\/9deadbirds.html\">cost local businesses quite a bit in lost revenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on what kiled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,21035741-2,00.html\">those birds in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to News8Austin and some AP stories I&#8217;ve seen floating around today, it was parasites and an overnight ten degree temperature drop (doesn&#8217;t that happen all the time around here?) that killed 63 birds and caused downtown to effectively shut down last Monday. It&#8217;s been interesting to hear the conspiracy theories. I guess that rumor <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/dead-bird-verdict-cold-and-bugs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-oP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}