{"id":81,"date":"2004-06-05T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=81"},"modified":"2004-06-05T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T11:05:00","slug":"kamakazi_birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Kamakazi birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\">Kamakazi birds<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-1086474294.99-0.jpg\" alt=\"street view\"><\/img><\/div>\n<p>A weird thing happened today.  As I was driving and leaving my housing division, a bird hit my car.  There were two birds and they flew from the trees on the right hand of the road to the middle of the road.  Perhaps they spotted a worm.  I approached them and I figured that they would fly off.  Unfortunately, they chose to retrace their flight which my truck happened to drive into.  Sigh.   I had a feeling they would flee in that direction.  I should have drove on the other side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>This is a first for me.  So far, I have run over a squirrel and a couple of cats.  I feel bad about killing them and wish I would have seen them in time to avoid hitting them.  But it is a hard fact of destroying the environment, err, driving a car.  I have also had a near miss from some deers (which will definitely do some damage).  Of course, I don&#8217;t count the millions of insects that I have killed.<\/p>\n<p>But that is not what is weird.  Two hours later, I was again leaving my housing division on the same road and another bird hit my car!  Coincidence?  Or have I pissed of the bird god?  I actually like birds, they eat insects and without them the insects would rule the earth.  I should buy a bird bath and a bird feeder to make up for this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This time I did not see the bird at all except for a brief glimpse from my peripheral vision and a loud thud from outside (my windows were rolled down).  This time I stopped and looked for the bird but did not see anything.  While I was checking my truck for damage a cop stopped and asked me if there was anything wrong.  I responded that I was struck by a bird!<\/p>\n<p>Should I start taking another exit from the complex?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamakazi birds A weird thing happened today. As I was driving and leaving my housing division, a bird hit my car. There were two birds and they flew from the trees on the right hand of the road to the middle of the road. Perhaps they spotted a worm. I approached them and I figured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}