{"id":11855,"date":"2014-02-15T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11855"},"modified":"2014-02-15T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T21:14:37","slug":"angry-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11855","title":{"rendered":"Angry bird."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/neighborhood\/cyfair\/article\/Rampaging-peacock-killed-by-owner-5237989.php?cmpid=hpbn\">A peacock was shot dead in northwest Houston Wednesday after a Harris County deputy was called to a residence near Kluge and Dale Rd. near Huffmeister.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <strong>peacock<\/strong>? My grandmother had peacocks around when I was a child; I don&#8217;t remember them being particularly vicious.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/neighborhood\/cyfair\/article\/Rampaging-peacock-killed-by-owner-5237989.php?cmpid=hpbn\">While the deputy was speaking with a female resident, the peacock began to attack the resident. The deputy made the decision to shoot the colorful bird with a stun gun.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stun guns: not just for high school students.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/neighborhood\/cyfair\/article\/Rampaging-peacock-killed-by-owner-5237989.php?cmpid=hpbn\">The peacock was seemingly unaffected by the jolts and the owner of the mad bird made the sad decision to dispatch the peaock with his own shotgun.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe Biden, call your office please.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/neighborhood\/cyfair\/article\/Rampaging-peacock-killed-by-owner-5237989.php?cmpid=hpbn\">A recent KHOU-TV story detailed a neighborhood not too far from this shooting incident, where peacocks have roamed free for decades.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no joke here, I just like saying &#8220;feral peacocks&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A peacock was shot dead in northwest Houston Wednesday after a Harris County deputy was called to a residence near Kluge and Dale Rd. near Huffmeister. A peacock? My grandmother had peacocks around when I was a child; I don&#8217;t remember them being particularly vicious. While the deputy was speaking with a female resident, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,160,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angry","category-birds","category-clippings","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11856,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855\/revisions\/11856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}