{"id":17368,"date":"2019-03-10T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17368"},"modified":"2019-03-10T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:54:55","slug":"how-we-turned-gulls-into-trash-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/how-we-turned-gulls-into-trash-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Turned Gulls Into Trash Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--_OJIdQmZ--\/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_900,q_80,w_1600\/xyalbg7tpzskbz79kwn8.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Wait&#8230;so you&#8217;re saying the we humans turned gulls into the sky rats that they are?<br \/>\nSay it ain&#8217;t so, Joe.<br \/>\n#ButSeriously We humans are really a scourge on our amazing planet. Parasites.  And someday, like all parasites, we will either consume our host&#8230;and kill our home world, or&#8230;more likely, be wiped out by a planet that knows how to take care of herself.<br \/>\nWill we figure it out and learn to be better managers of our own waste? Or are we doomed to remain #HumanTicks on an #AngryPlanet? Tik-tok. Tik-tok.#TikTok<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;How We Turned Gulls Into Trash Birds&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/ino.to\/jvN19R9\">https:\/\/ino.to\/jvN19R9<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait&#8230;so you&#8217;re saying the we humans turned gulls into the sky rats that they are? Say it ain&#8217;t so, Joe. #ButSeriously We humans are really a scourge on our amazing planet. Parasites. And someday, like all parasites, we will either consume our host&#8230;and kill our home world, or&#8230;more likely, be wiped out by a planet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17378,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/mercury-not-venus-is-the-closest-planet-to-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":17368,"position":0},"title":"Mercury, Not Venus, Is the Closest Planet to Earth","date":"March 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"#NowYouKnow Solar System Edition The Article 'Mercury, Not Venus, Is the Closest Planet to Earth' originally appeared on https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/mercury-not-venus-is-the-closest-planet-to-earth-1833290616 Jamie's comments are his own.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;#blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16231,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/no-job-for-humans-the-robot-assault-on-fukushima\/","url_meta":{"origin":17368,"position":1},"title":"No Job for Humans: The Robot Assault on Fukushima","date":"April 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Now there's a job for robots that takes zero jobs from humans. #Robots #Fukushima The Article 'No Job for Humans: The Robot Assault on Fukushima' originally appeared on https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fukushima-robot-cleanup\/ Jamie's comments are his own.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;#blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17539,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/us-to-strafe-crucial-nesting-area-for-3m-birds-with-poison-to-eradicate-mice\/","url_meta":{"origin":17368,"position":2},"title":"US to strafe crucial nesting area for 3m birds with poison to eradicate mice","date":"May 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Gee...has anyone asked what will happen to the birds? 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