{"id":4044,"date":"2004-09-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/the-parrot-talker-2\/"},"modified":"2004-09-18T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-18T05:00:00","slug":"the-parrot-talker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/the-parrot-talker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parrot Talker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having some of the strangest experiences on the L lately.  Usually I tune out with my iPod, but my ears are wonky from the coughing, hacking, wheezing, etc. so I&#8217;ve been watching and listening to my fellow passengers more than I want.  I can&#8217;t wait to be well again.<\/p>\n<p>Parrot Talker to her cell: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi Mom&#8230;yeah, yeah, the first day went well&#8230;we waited in this lobby and there were two parrots.  The receptionist said they don&#8217;t shut up. <i>Sqwuaaaaaa-ak! Hello, hello!<\/i> all day long they go <i>Sqwuaaaaaa-ak! Hello, hello!<\/i>&#8230;.yeah, it&#8217;s funny&#8230;no, they&#8217;ll talk to you, but if you don&#8217;t talk then they&#8217;ll amuse themselves, <i>Sqwuaaaaaa-ak! Hello, hello!<\/i>.  It was the funniest thing&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parrot Talker was completely unaware of how her unexpectedly public imitation of parrots amused her fellow passengers.  I wondered if she practiced her <i>Polly wanna cracker<\/i> for the next trip.  I exchanged looks with the woman across the aisle and knew that she wondered too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having some of the strangest experiences on the L lately. Usually I tune out with my iPod, but my ears are wonky from the coughing, hacking, wheezing, etc. so I&#8217;ve been watching and listening to my fellow passengers more than I want. I can&#8217;t wait to be well again. Parrot Talker to her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}