{"id":33497,"date":"2022-09-10T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-playing-on-thin-ice\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:51:16","slug":"and-finally-playing-on-thin-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-playing-on-thin-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"And Finally Playing on Thin Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This ostrich would have been safer burying his head in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, an ostrich at the Pittsburgh Zoo recently fell through the ice in a creek and had to be rescued by zoo staff.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo employees initially used metal rods to break the ice around the stranded ostrich, according to a Feb. 2, 2016, UPI story, and unsuccessfully tried to lure the bird onto dry ground.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually a staff member &ldquo;jumped into the water to walk alongside the ostrich after several failed attempts to guide it to the bank of the partially frozen creek. After a slight struggle [the employee] eventually was able to guide the bird to safety where zoo staff ensured the two were warm and dry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So apparently ostriches are not only flightless, but they also can&rsquo;t swim.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/and-finally-playing-on-thin-ice\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ostrich would have been safer burying his head in the sand. Instead, an ostrich at the Pittsburgh Zoo recently fell through the ice in a creek and had to be rescued by zoo staff. Zoo employees initially used metal rods to break the ice around the stranded ostrich, according to a Feb. 2, 2016, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-playing-on-thin-ice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And Finally Playing on Thin Ice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}