{"id":1731,"date":"2012-05-01T06:11:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T05:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2012-05-01T06:11:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T05:11:23","slug":"lets-celebrate-the-lesser-black-backed-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/05\/01\/lets-celebrate-the-lesser-black-backed-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's celebrate the lesser black-backed gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/picturesoftheday\/9220620\/Pictures-of-the-day-23-April-2012.html?frame=2200668\">picture<\/a> of a\u00a0lesser black-backed gull taking a duckling from Dublin's Herbert Park pond will feature on many wildlife charity Christmas cards this year.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect not, as we're squeamish about some of the realities of the natural world, and certainly choosey about which nature metaphor we use as a template for human living. \u00a0And we are <em>very<\/em> selective when it comes to the predators that we valorise: owls are fine, it seems; as are hawks and big cats; but gulls? magpies? foxes? \u2013 and so on, and on ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if this\u00a0picture of a\u00a0lesser black-backed gull taking a duckling from Dublin's Herbert Park pond will feature on many wildlife charity Christmas cards this year. I suspect not, as we're squeamish about some of the realities of the natural...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}