{"id":1000393,"date":"2007-02-07T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/02\/07\/birding-at-the-dinner-table\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:43:33","slug":"birding-at-the-dinner-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/02\/07\/birding-at-the-dinner-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding at the Dinner Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/7087338\/\">Silver Swan<\/a> for Extreme Tuesday NYC, when I noticed on the menu &#8220;Wild Canadian Muscovy Duck&#8221;. Methinks someone embellished the menu a little too much. Muscovy Duck is a South American species. While Muscovies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmradio.org\/english\/radio-scripts\/31-3script_en.asp\">commonly raised on farms<\/a>, and escaped birds do appear regularly at least as far north as New York, I very much doubt anyone in Canada is hunting them. If they are, they&#8217;re doing it in city parks. Either these birds weren&#8217;t wild, or they weren&#8217;t Muscovies.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I had the beef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was at the Silver Swan for Extreme Tuesday NYC, when I noticed on the menu &#8220;Wild Canadian Muscovy Duck&#8221;. Methinks someone embellished the menu a little too much. Muscovy Duck is a South American species. While Muscovies are commonly raised on farms, and escaped birds do appear regularly at least as far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}