{"id":59389,"date":"2016-07-01T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59389"},"modified":"2016-06-26T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:54:58","slug":"59389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59389","title":{"rendered":"Mother Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the olden days, a child born out of wedlock was illegitimate and not entitled to support from the father.\u00a0 Fear for her child kept women from straying which contributed to social stability.\u00a0 Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-05-sparrows-unfaithful-wives-young.html\"><span class=\"s2\">it\u2019s not just a human thing<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Too bad the birdbrains who changed our laws are not as smart as sparrows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">The first step to saving our society may be a game show for our politicians and media stars called &#8220;Are You Smarter Than A Small Bird?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I&#8217;m afraid we&#8217;d have to run qualifiers through a round of &#8220;Are You Smarter Than An Invertebrate?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In the olden days, a child born out of wedlock was illegitimate and not entitled to support from the father.\u00a0 Fear for her child kept women from straying which contributed to social stability.\u00a0 Apparently, it\u2019s not just a human thing. \u00a0Too bad the birdbrains who changed our laws are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-family-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59407,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389\/revisions\/59407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}