{"id":10263,"date":"2015-09-08T02:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10263"},"modified":"2015-08-05T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T18:22:15","slug":"lady-elgin-and-the-cormorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/lady-elgin-and-the-cormorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Elgin and the Cormorant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the morning of September 8, 1860, the\u00a0<em>Lady Elgin<\/em>, a ten-year-old wooden steamship, was rammed and sunk by the\u00a0<em>Augusta<\/em> on Lake Michigan, just off Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, in Boston, England, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details?id=dngMAQAAIAAJ&amp;rdid=book-dngMAQAAIAAJ&amp;rdot=1\"><strong>great cormorant\u00a0<\/strong>landed<\/a> on the steeple of the church,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>much to the alarm of the superstitious. There it remained, with the exception of two hours&#8217; absence, till early on Monday morning, when it was shot by the caretaker of the church. The fears of the credulous were singularly confirmed when the news arrived of the loss of the Lady Elgin at sea, with three hundred passengers, amongst whom were Mr. Ingram, member for Boston, with his son, on the very morning when the bird was first seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"great cormorant\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/17201650750\/in\/photolist-sd3Xtm-rPbWuM-s8sGjB-uT2Lhh-quxZbQ-pqXF6Q-poXm6m-jKRN1d-jKLphB-jKNDLG-jKQqkt-jKLpEk-jKLpRH-dT3Rkq-dSXfPg-dTgWW5-dT3Rhj-dSXfNT-dSXfNH-dGwcst-dGBANq-dGBAX7-dGwcAX-dGwcqB-dGwcuc-dGwcnn-dGwcwr-dGDKSN-dGBB6f-d9ZhdR-d9Zhz3-d9Zi3m-d9ZhmT-b6Qfu6-b6QenB-ba5ysa-b6QeDe-ba5tMi-aWULr6-aWULBZ-aTkUpX-aTjZnK-aTk1Sc-aTk2gV-aTjYVP-aTk25r-aTjZzF-aMoE5t-5gjdEo-5giRDm\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8800\/17201650750_16c202aeae_z.jpg\" alt=\"great cormorant\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the morning of September 8, 1860, the\u00a0Lady Elgin, a ten-year-old wooden steamship, was rammed and sunk by the\u00a0Augusta on Lake Michigan, just off Chicago. The next morning, in Boston, England, a\u00a0great cormorant\u00a0landed on the steeple of the church, much to the alarm of the superstitious. There it remained, with the exception of two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/lady-elgin-and-the-cormorant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lady Elgin and the Cormorant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,549,546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}