{"id":51,"date":"2012-06-24T12:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-06-30T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T14:42:56","slug":"ida-and-queenie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/24\/ida-and-queenie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ida and Queenie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/24\/ida-and-queenie\/470314_10150985592112180_1066006547_o\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-52\" title=\"Ida and Queenie\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/470314_10150985592112180_1066006547_o.jpg?resize=640%2C425\" alt=\"Ida and Queenie sitting in the entrance to the chicken hut\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/470314_10150985592112180_1066006547_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/470314_10150985592112180_1066006547_o.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/470314_10150985592112180_1066006547_o.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/470314_10150985592112180_1066006547_o.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/470314_10150985592112180_1066006547_o.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This snuggly double portrait was unimaginable as recently as Thursday, when the bigger chickens were still taking turns to persecute little Ida (left), at least when they weren&#8217;t doing it collectively as a trio. But Ida has since realised that when Queenie (right) is on her own, she&#8217;s essentially a placid soul &#8211; in fact, since Ida is still growing and has a visibly livelier temperament and a greater propensity to take risks (such as nicking the others&#8217; food while they&#8217;ve lifted their beaks for a millisecond), it wouldn&#8217;t be at all surprising if the pecking order gets recalibrated in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This snuggly double portrait was unimaginable as recently as Thursday, when the bigger chickens were still taking turns to persecute little Ida (left), at least when they weren&#8217;t doing it collectively as a trio. But Ida has since realised that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/06\/24\/ida-and-queenie\/\">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":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ida","category-queenie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2yQM0-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}