{"id":575,"date":"2017-07-23T05:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/?p=575"},"modified":"2017-07-24T03:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:55:46","slug":"something-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Something Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite aside from the difficulties and mysteries encountered above (in \u201c<em>Sanch\u014dden<\/em>: The Transmission of the Three Birds\u201d and \u201cThe Absence of the Third Bird at Nikk\u014d\u201d), we would also like to share a diverting image that arrived over the transom from a correspondent who provides only a \u201cbird name,\u201d as traditionally adopted by associates of the Order of the Third Bird. The caption scribbled on the reverse of this photograph, taken in apparent haste, is as follows: \u201cWorkroom and headquarters, Secretary Locotenant of the Order of the Third Bird.\u201d Many of our readers are in proud or bemused possession of one of the many contradictory and fragmentary images of the Locotenant currently in circulation. The present photograph is unusual in that it does not purport to feature the Secretary him- or herself, and also appears to be quite contemporary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3091.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3091-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3091-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3091-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite aside from the difficulties and mysteries encountered above (in \u201cSanch\u014dden: The Transmission of the Three Birds\u201d and \u201cThe Absence of the Third Bird at Nikk\u014d\u201d), we would also like to share a diverting image that arrived over the transom from a correspondent who provides only a \u201cbird name,\u201d as traditionally adopted by associates of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estarser.net\/communiques\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}