{"id":15247,"date":"2015-04-28T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2015\/04\/28\/a-mysterious-flapping\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"a-mysterious-flapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2015\/04\/28\/a-mysterious-flapping\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Flapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For days, there&#8217;s been a sporadic noise coming from the wall of our living room. Craig and I deduced that something must&#8217;ve fallen down the chimney and, since that&#8217;s closed up, was trapped there.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal\">It was breaking my heart to think of a living creature trapped and afraid in our chimney. So <\/span>I took off the vent cover behind the TV, and, sure enough, there was a rectangular opening to the chimney. I left it open, and before long, a pigeon came out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After much flapping &amp; chasing on both our parts, it squeezed out of the top living room window and flew out across the green.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal\">Thinking there was no solution, <\/span>I&#8217;d been trying to rationalize leaving the bird be to die, but I&#8217;m glad I wasn&#8217;t able to do that.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For days, there&#8217;s been a sporadic noise coming from the wall of our living room. Craig and I deduced that something must&#8217;ve fallen down the chimney and, since that&#8217;s closed up, was trapped there. It was breaking my heart to think of a living creature trapped and afraid in our chimney. So I took off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}