{"id":16533,"date":"2012-05-23T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16533"},"modified":"2012-05-23T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:02:18","slug":"penguin-anthropomorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/penguin-anthropomorphism\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin anthropomorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penguins once again become a touching metaphor for humans; this time homosexuals who want to raise children. A couple of supposedly gay penguins in Madrid are yearning to be parents. I\u2019m not sure how anyone knows that they are in the throes of unfulfilled parental <em>yearning<\/em> other than the fact that they have built a nest. I was under the impression that building nests is just something birds do. Still, someone is going to put an egg in it.<\/p>\n<p>That proves that it was OK to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1342633\/Elton-John-father-baby-Zachary-David-Furnish-mother-official-document.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elton and David<\/a> an egg\u2026 err, a baby.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/05\/23\/gay-penguin-couple-given-their-own-egg-to-rear\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two gay Gentoo Penguins, that have for six years yearned to be parents, have been given their own egg to rear in Madrid, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>The two male penguins, Inca and Rayas, met at Madrid\u2019s Faunia Park six years ago, and have been inseparable since then. However, they have been building a nest every year in the hope of being able to nurture a young penguin, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>The Times reports today that zoo-keepers will place an egg in their nest, in order for them to become parents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penguins once again become a touching metaphor for humans; this time homosexuals who want to raise children. A couple of supposedly gay penguins in Madrid are yearning to be parents. I\u2019m not sure how anyone knows that they are in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/penguin-anthropomorphism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[785,2167],"class_list":["post-16533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-gay-penguins","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}