{"id":11442,"date":"2017-09-02T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11442"},"modified":"2017-09-02T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T20:14:00","slug":"fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/02\/fact-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/gregfallis.com\/2017\/08\/29\/my-day-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Fallis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Got distracted by this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>READ THIS FIRST: Feathers and the Law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feathers and the Law \u2014 four words I\u2019d never expect to see together. Totally clicked on the link, which opens a window with a few other links and begins with this alarming warning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Feathers are beautiful and remarkable objects.\u00a0 If you find feathers in nature, appreciate, study, and photograph them, but leave them where you found them.\u00a0 It is illegal to take them home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No fucking way is that illegal. Is it? Yes, it is. Sorta kinda. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to\u00a0hunt, take, capture, kill, or sell migratory birds or any part of a bird, including feathers, eggs, and nests. Of the 900+ bird species in North America, more than 800 are considered migratory. We\u2019re talking birds like crows and mourning doves and chickadees \u2014 and it\u2019s actually illegal to take their feathers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hope my Arts Editor is reading this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Greg Fallis: Got distracted by this: READ THIS FIRST: Feathers and the Law. Feathers and the Law \u2014 four words I\u2019d never expect to see together. Totally clicked on the link, which opens a window with a few other links and begins with this alarming warning. Feathers are beautiful \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/02\/fact-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11443,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions\/11443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}