{"id":121,"date":"2011-07-20T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-07-20T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:00:31","slug":"last-of-the-curlews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/2011\/07\/20\/last-of-the-curlews\/","title":{"rendered":"Last of the Curlews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1972 around my ninth birthday, I saw this ABC Afterschool Special based on Fred Bodsworth&#8217;s book <em>Last of the Curlews<\/em>. \u00a0A real tear-jerker, it opened my eyes to the world of conservation and the plight of endangered species, and certainly shaped the course of my life. \u00a0For those who have not seen it, it has been posted to YouTube in 5 parts:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mtkKCNvqXoA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe>\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eDqyxtDtI7w\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RphHuta97M0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtLOgHFBi0o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wgqw-0-3mYA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1972 around my ninth birthday, I saw this ABC Afterschool Special based on Fred Bodsworth&#8217;s book Last of the Curlews. \u00a0A real tear-jerker, it opened my eyes to the world of conservation and the plight of endangered species, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/2011\/07\/20\/last-of-the-curlews\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}