{"id":5798,"date":"2017-04-11T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2017-04-11T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:44:31","slug":"i-have-a-pigeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5798","title":{"rendered":"I have a pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Sunday:\u00a0 2 hours of rowing; Monday 3.5 miles mixed run\/walk]<\/p>\n

I was going through a box of my office decorations from when I had an office and I found this certificate for the International Pigeon Registry.<\/p>\n

When we lived in Chicago in the late 1980’s we frequently listened to WGN on the radio.\u00a0 In the evenings there was a variety radio show by\u00a0 two guys called the Al and\/or Ed Show.\u00a0 It also happened to be the time when the International Star Registry was advertising quite a bit.\u00a0 So they put together this charity International Pigeon Registry.\u00a0 You give them some money\u00a0 (I don’t remember how much) and they give you this certificate.\u00a0 And the money, or most of it, goes to the Make A Wish foundation charity.<\/p>\n

My wife decided I needed one of these for Christmas, which was a nice thing to do.\u00a0 She had to travel all the way downtown to get it.<\/p>\n

Since I worked downtown I could go by Daley Plaza anytime I wanted to and see my pigeon cavorting with his friends.\u00a0 (yeah, right!)<\/p>\n

PigeonWGN<\/a><\/p>\n

We also didn’t have a television during most of that time.\u00a0 And I think there were two occasions when she called in to talk to the show and they were amazed that we didn’t have a TV.\u00a0 Their thing was that they had all sorts of coupons and gift certificates for restaurants and such and they gave them to the callers if things were interesting.\u00a0 So I think we had two different free meals due to not having a TV.\u00a0 (and for all of you kiddies out there… we didn’t have internet in those days either)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Sunday:\u00a0 2 hours of rowing; Monday 3.5 miles mixed run\/walk] I was going through a box of my office decorations from when I had an office and I found this certificate for the International Pigeon Registry. When we lived in Chicago in the late 1980’s we frequently listened to WGN on the radio.\u00a0 In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}