{"id":808,"date":"2002-12-16T19:29:59","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T03:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/16\/giant-sea-sparrows\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:03:47","slug":"giant-sea-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/16\/giant-sea-sparrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant sea sparrows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15628,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2002\\\/12\\\/15\\\/magazine\\\/15CORRECTION.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131120191050\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com:80\\\/2002\\\/12\\\/15\\\/magazine\\\/15CORRECTION.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15629,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/22357&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051001061006\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/22357&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15630,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/11817&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251201001856\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/user.mefi\\\/11817&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15631,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/22357#404745&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051001061006\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/22357&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:23:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  An article on Nov. 10 about animal rights referred erroneously to an island in the Indian Ocean and to events there involving goats and endangered giant sea sparrows that could possibly lead to the killing of goats by environmental groups. Wrightson Island does not exist; both the island and the events are hypothetical figments from a book (also mentioned in the article), &#8220;Beginning Again,&#8221; by David Ehrenfeld. No giant sea sparrow is known to be endangered by the eating habits of goats.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Correction in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/12\/15\/magazine\/15CORRECTION.html\" title=\"Correction\">The New York Times<\/a>, Dec. 15th, 2002 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/22357\" title=\"MeFi comment thread\">Metafilter<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/user.mefi\/11817\" title=\"MeFi profile for mr_crash_davis\">mr_crash_davis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/22357#404745\" title=\"mr_crash_davis: 'How quaint.'\">pointed out<\/a>, &#8220;Not &#8216;No giant sea sparrow <strong>is<\/strong> endangered by\u2026&#8217;, but &#8216;No giant sea sparrow <strong>is known to be<\/strong>\u2026&#8217;, <em>just in case<\/em> one turns up somewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No giant sea sparrow is known to be endangered by the eating habits of goats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}