{"id":23834,"date":"2012-07-19T09:18:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23834"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:18:36","slug":"even-pigeons-know-its-better-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/even-pigeons-know-its-better-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Even Pigeons Know It&#8217;s Better in The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23836\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23836\" title=\"leeds-pigeon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/leeds-pigeon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/leeds-pigeon.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/leeds-pigeon-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry in the Bahamas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Racing pigeon enthusiast Fred Lock is hoping to be reunited as soon as possible with his prized bird after it went missing &#8211; and turned up in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Henry went missing from his coop in Leeds after Fred released him in France in May for a race.<\/p>\n<p>Fred thought he&#8217;d lost him for good until he got a call all the way from the Bahamas to say Henry had been discovered alive and well, apparently enjoying a &#8220;holiday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pigeon was identified by Kate Barley, from Grimsby, who&#8217;s now living in the Bahamas, from a wing ring with his Leeds telephone number.<\/p>\n<p>Since the phone call, Fred has been kept up-to-date with his progress with emails and pictures and could be reunited with him this September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\" target=\"_blank\">ITV News<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto credit: Kate Barley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry the prized racing pigeon went missing after he was released for a race in France. He was later discovered taking an impromptu vacation in the Bahamas and will be returning home soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63,48,215,73,157],"class_list":["post-23834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-animals","tag-beauty","tag-nature","tag-travel-2","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}