{"id":8451,"date":"2013-04-14T04:58:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T04:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8451"},"modified":"2013-04-14T04:58:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T04:58:49","slug":"bird-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/bird-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HMV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HMV-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"HMV\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HMV-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HMV.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324695104578418973705609876.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">report<\/a>s: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CARACAS\u2014Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the one-time bus driver widely expected to become Venezuela&#8217;s next president in Sunday&#8217;s elections, has resorted to an unusual campaign gimmick in the past week: At nearly every stop, he has suddenly broken out into birdsong.<\/p>\n<p>The whistling started some 10 days ago, after the candidate says his mentor, the late President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, visited him in a chapel in the form of a bird to bless the official launch of his presidential bid.<br \/>\n&#8220;I felt the spirit of my commander Chavez,&#8221; Mr. Maduro explained to a crowd after telling them how the bird circled over his head three times.<\/p>\n<p>The birdsong, typically responded to by ecstatic crowds with whistling of their own, underscores the candidate&#8217;s reliance on the memory of Mr. Chavez&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good grief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports: CARACAS\u2014Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the one-time bus driver widely expected to become Venezuela&#8217;s next president in Sunday&#8217;s elections, has resorted to an unusual campaign gimmick in the past week: At nearly every stop, he has suddenly broken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/bird-brain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[1001,250,845],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}