{"id":19,"date":"2014-04-28T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/?p=19"},"modified":"2014-08-29T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:16:30","slug":"swan_song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Swan_song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Swan_song.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21\" src=\"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Swan_song.jpg\" alt=\"Cousin of the Trumpeter, the Harper swan has a much harder time getting into funk bands.\" width=\"220\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cousin of the Trumpeter, the Harper swan has a much harder time getting into funk bands.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love Wiki entries that leave some of a mystery intact.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t consider it so much a lack of solid scientific information being included in the entry (&#8230;okay, maybe I do&#8230;) but a deference to a more poetic interpretation.\u00a0 This would certainly be appropriate for the entry for &#8220;swan song&#8221;, after the reading of which I&#8217;m not only left asking, &#8220;so do they sing when the die or don&#8217;t they?&#8221; but also, &#8220;ohmygod, do they really pull out a harp and accompany their own dying aria with a harp solo plucked out with their own swan lips??&#8221;\u00a0 There&#8217;s a &#8220;put it on my bill&#8221; joke in there somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read about it on Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swan_song\" target=\"_blank\">Swan_song<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Wiki entries that leave some of a mystery intact.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t consider it so much a lack of solid scientific information being included in the entry (&#8230;okay, maybe I do&#8230;) but a deference to a more poetic interpretation.\u00a0 This would certainly be appropriate for the entry for &#8220;swan song&#8221;, after the reading of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}