{"id":127,"date":"2008-12-04T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T08:31:19","slug":"when-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/127-when-in-rome.html","title":{"rendered":"When in Rome &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are visiting Rome, and for the first time I got an inkling about how many 5 million starlings are (also see <a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/news\/2008\/12\/081202_rome_starlings_sl.shtml\">BBC<\/a>).<br \/>\n<a class=\"serendipity_image_link\" href=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling1.jpg\"><!-- s9ymdb:170 --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling1.serendipityThumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"serendipity_image_link\" href=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling2.jpg\"><!-- s9ymdb:171 --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling2.serendipityThumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"serendipity_image_link\" href=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling3.jpg\"><!-- s9ymdb:172 --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling3.serendipityThumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"serendipity_image_link\" href=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling4.jpg\"><!-- s9ymdb:173 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/starling4.serendipityThumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are visiting Rome, and for the first time I got an inkling about how many 5 million starlings are (also see BBC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[519,159,160,512,523,511,161,162],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-photography","tag-bird","tag-environment","tag-italy","tag-life","tag-nature","tag-photography","tag-rome","tag-starling","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xqPf-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128,"url":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/128-squirrel-paradise.html","url_meta":{"origin":127,"position":0},"title":"Squirrel Paradise","author":"leirdal","date":"2008-12-08","format":false,"excerpt":"A market vendor in RomeAs you might have noticed, I recently visited Rome. 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