{"id":60,"date":"2009-03-24T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-01-19T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:26:22","slug":"alex-me-how-a-scientist-and-a-parrot-uncovered-a-hidden-world-of-animal-intelligence-and-formed-a-deep-bond-in-the-process-by-irene-pepperberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Alex &#038; Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence&#8211;and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene Pepperberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/5743728\/book\/46660171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0061672475.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Alex &amp; Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg\" width=\"112\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>This is the story of Irene Pepperberg, the woman who trained a parrot, Alex, to speak English.  It talks about the training, risks, and successes of the project.  The story is well told and entertaining, it is easy to get drawn in.  I am curious if the research has been continued and with what successes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the story of Irene Pepperberg, the woman who trained a parrot, Alex, to speak English. It talks about the training, risks, and successes of the project. The story is well told and entertaining, it is easy to get drawn in. I am curious if the research has been continued and with what successes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites","category-history","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}