{"id":2842,"date":"2012-11-02T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2012-11-02T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T06:06:19","slug":"pigeon-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/pigeon-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Commando, one of the British pigeons who served in the National Pigeon Service during WWII<\/figcaption><\/figure>Carrier pigeon’s skeleton sparks WWII code mystery<\/a>!1<\/a><\/sup> Pigeons AND coded messages! My favourite kind of news article! Poor brave little pigeon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a cheerier note, here’s a news reel<\/a> of some valiant pigeons who did<\/em> make it home. It shows pigeons Gustav<\/a> and Paddy<\/a> being presented with the Dickin Medal, the animal version of the Victoria Cross.<\/p>\n

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  1. Thanks for the link, Zoe. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Carrier pigeon’s skeleton sparks WWII code mystery!1 Pigeons AND coded messages! My favourite kind of news article! Poor brave little pigeon. On a cheerier note, here’s a news reel of some valiant pigeons who did make it home. It shows pigeons Gustav and Paddy being presented with the Dickin Medal, the animal version of the … Continue reading Pigeon Power<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}