{"id":12160,"date":"2022-10-04T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:35:10","slug":"a-murder-of-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/a-murder-of-crows\/","title":{"rendered":"A Murder of Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of crows is called a Murder of Crows<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that if you see a great number of crows<\/p>\n<p>That the death of one of their number has taken place<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is also thought that they are in mourning<\/p>\n<p>As crows are known to be emotional creatures<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another explanation notes<\/p>\n<p>That they need to know<\/p>\n<p>What killed the unfortunate crow<\/p>\n<p>So that they might avoid the same fate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the Bible, if a crow is weeping in a tree,<\/p>\n<p>It means that it is not weeping elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From Notes on Crows (1891)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of crows is called a Murder of Crows It is likely that if you see a great number of crows That the death of one of their number has taken place &nbsp; It is also thought that they are in mourning As crows are known to be emotional creatures &nbsp; Another explanation notes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12161,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions\/12161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}