{"id":165,"date":"2013-12-10T20:11:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=165"},"modified":"2013-12-10T20:11:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:11:41","slug":"this-week-i-learned-falconry-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/12\/this-week-i-learned-falconry-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned: Falconry Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another round of interesting trivia this week:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Did you know there are more SIM cards in Africa than in North America? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/silicon-savannah-how-mobile-phones-and-the-internet-changed-africa-a-936307.html\">This article is a bit hyperbolic, but provides a good overview nonetheless<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/21aec4ae-5c21-11e3-931e-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl\">here is an interesting piece on an IT contractor-turned-falconer<\/a>, who makes his living driving nesting pigeons away from London public buildings (free reg&#8217;n required).<\/li>\n<li>Still on an animal theme, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/britain\/21591192-revival-old-crime-lamb\">sheep thefts are up in the UK<\/a> (free reg&#8217;n required).<\/li>\n<li>Police in Germany have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4461124,00.html\">developed an app (aka &#8220;Nazi Shazam&#8221;) to pick up Neo-Nazi music<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another round of interesting trivia this week: Did you know there are more SIM cards in Africa than in North America? This article is a bit hyperbolic, but provides a good overview nonetheless. And here is an interesting piece on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/12\/this-week-i-learned-falconry-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}