{"id":2451,"date":"2011-01-05T00:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2011-01-05T00:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:36:04","slug":"the-almost-impossible-black-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"The almost impossible black swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black Swan Outnumbered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11010302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMore than the usual number of swans can be found waiting near St Helen&#8217;s Wharf.<\/p>\n<p>The Swan Uppers &#8211; who normally catch and weigh swans as part of the royal swan census in July &#8211; would have their hands full if they arrived right now.<\/p>\n<p>The black swan is still there &#8211; probably an escapee from a wildlife park and originally from Australia. The odds may look stacked against it but at one time the very <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_swan_theory\">thought of a black swan<\/a> was a way of saying something was almost impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than the usual number of swans can be found waiting near St Helen&#8217;s Wharf. The Swan Uppers &#8211; who normally catch and weigh swans as part of the royal swan census in July &#8211; would have their hands full if they arrived right now. The black swan is still there &#8211; probably an escapee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}