{"id":49,"date":"2012-06-24T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/?p=49"},"modified":"2012-06-30T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T17:54:02","slug":"chickens-and-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/24\/chickens-and-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens and birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me: Are you going out to feed the birds?<br \/>\nDaughter (seven): No, the chickens.<br \/>\nMe: Chickens are birds.<br \/>\nDaughter: (derisively) No they&#8217;re not!<br \/>\nMe: So why aren&#8217;t they birds? They have feathers and beaks.<br \/>\nDaughter: They can&#8217;t fly.<br \/>\nMe: Penguins can&#8217;t fly, and they&#8217;re birds.<br \/>\nDaughter: (confidently) No they&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The nonsensicality of this argument was exposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/27\/the-great-escape-2\/\">a few days later<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: Are you going out to feed the birds? Daughter (seven): No, the chickens. Me: Chickens are birds. Daughter: (derisively) No they&#8217;re not! Me: So why aren&#8217;t they birds? They have feathers and beaks. Daughter: They can&#8217;t fly. Me: Penguins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/24\/chickens-and-birds\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophical-debates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2yQM0-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}