{"id":42789,"date":"2018-04-13T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42789"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:13:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T13:13:17","slug":"from-billions-to-zero-in-50-years-the-extinction-of-the-passenger-pigeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/from-billions-to-zero-in-50-years-the-extinction-of-the-passenger-pigeon\/","title":{"rendered":"From Billions to Zero in 50 Years &#8211; The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zi2JjfLMmc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Today I Found Out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 23 Aug 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book: <em>A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon&#8217;s Flight to Extinction<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>In this video: <\/p>\n<p>Martha was a very lonely bird. She had once been part of a pair, with her male counterpart George, but he had died several years before. So, for the final years of her life, Martha sat in her one-bird cage alone. The Cincinnati Zoo offered a thousand dollar reward (about $23,000 today) to anyone who could track down a mate for Martha. Unfortunately, there were no mates left for her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I Found Out Published on 23 Aug 2017 Book: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon&#8217;s Flight to Extinction In this video: Martha was a very lonely bird. She had once been part of a pair, with her male counterpart George, but he had died several years before. So, for the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[6,65,7,13],"tags":[747],"class_list":["post-42789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-environment","category-history","category-usa","tag-cincinnati"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b89","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42790,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42789\/revisions\/42790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}