{"id":1262,"date":"2012-04-17T13:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2012-10-04T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:28:44","slug":"why-i-dont-go-on-the-water-killer-swans-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/why-i-dont-go-on-the-water-killer-swans-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t go ON the water&#8230;killer swans edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I do go on the water. I love kayaking. I don&#8217;t love swans, especially now, as a swan has taken one of our own (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17736292\">BBC<\/a>):  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Hensley tried to swim to shore but eyewitnesses told the sheriff&#8217;s investigators the swan appeared to have actively blocked him. <div style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1282\" alt=\"Killer Swan\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQaPeBD6R1N-78sweRHQE4z_4MscygfcRaki3A3D4eTQzIkE5V_\" width=\"264\" height=\"191\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Crom, they&#039;re after the children!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find myself still scratching my head,&#8221; says Sheriff Dart. &#8220;This truly is one of the ones that keeps you from saying &#8216;I&#8217;ve seen everything now.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the Canadian geese go after passersby, especially when their young are around, and I&#8217;ve seen a swan chasing people, but never thought they&#8217;d consider murder. (Canadian geese, however, are renown for their anti-human suicide attacks, showing no concern for <a href=\"http:\/\/safetycrusader.com\/Yukla27Accident.aspx\">military<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/money.usnews.com\/money\/blogs\/flowchart\/2009\/02\/03\/how-sullenberger-really-saved-us-airways-flight-1549\">civilian<\/a> targets.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I do go on the water. I love kayaking. I don&#8217;t love swans, especially now, as a swan has taken one of our own (from the BBC): Mr Hensley tried to swim to shore but eyewitnesses told the sheriff&#8217;s investigators the swan appeared to have actively blocked him. &#8220;I find myself still scratching my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-km","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}