{"id":9345,"date":"2011-01-10T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2011-01-05T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T15:57:35","slug":"2000-birds-100000-fish-inexplicably-turn-up-dead-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/01\/2000-birds-100000-fish-inexplicably-turn-up-dead-in-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"2,000 Birds, 100,000 Fish Inexplicably Turn Up Dead in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Has 2011 brought the start of the apocalypse or what? It seems that way in Arkansas at least, where thousands of animals have inexplicably turned up dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, on New Year&#8217;s Eve, some 2,000 red-winged blackbirds fell out of the sky for no discernible reason. Over the weekend, officials speculated that the birds&#8217; death could have been caused by lightning, high-altitude hail or New Year&#8217;s fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>But the plot thickens. Now it&#8217;s being reported that an estimated 100,000 fish have also perished in the state. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/01\/03\/national\/main7208349.shtml\" >CBS\u00a0News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The drum fish were discovered Thursday across more than 20 miles of the [Arkansas] river, fish and game officials announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they don&#8217;t know what killed the fish, but that contaminated water isn&#8217;t likely to be the cause because only one species was affected.<\/p>\n<p>The fish kill took place only 125 miles from the site of the mysterious falling birds.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas, what gives?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/newsandviews\/article\/420982\/weird%3A_2%2C000_birds%2C_100%2C000_fish_inexplicably_turn_up_dead_in_arkansas\/#paragraph4\" >Go to Original \u2013 alternet.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has 2011 brought the start of the apocalypse or what? It seems that way in Arkansas at least, where thousands of animals have inexplicably turned up dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}