{"id":6820,"date":"2009-03-25T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T23:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2009-03-25T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T23:51:51","slug":"gordo-the-skateboarding-parrot-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6820","title":{"rendered":"Gordo The Skateboarding Parrot: Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090308-110019-parrot1-tmjpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090308-110019-parrot1-tmjpg.jpeg','popup','width=430,height=285,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090308-110019-parrot1-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"132\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20090308-110019-Parrot1-Tm.Jpg\" \/><\/a>Baldwin Park, California&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6241\" target=\"_blank\">world famous skateboarding parrot Gordo<\/a><\/strong>, has reportedly been stolen from his cage and owner <strong>Fred Mirales<\/strong> is distraught, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasadenastarnews.com\/news\/ci_11995301\" target=\"_blank\">Pasadena Star News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bird-napping occurred about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday as Gordo &#8211; a green Malaysian parrot from Guatemala &#8211; played in his cage on the front porch of his owner&#8217;s Bess Street home. . . &#8220;My mother was at home and she heard somebody trying to break into the cage,&#8221; said Fred Mirales. &#8220;When she went out there, the guy was already (running away).&#8221; . . .Gordo has become a popular city figure, said Mirales, who has had the 30-year-old parrot for about a decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just one of the downsides of fame, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Editors&#8217; Note<\/strong>: We&#8217;re having a hard time believing that we just posted this, but shore &#8217;nuff there it is.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasadenastarnews.com\/news\/ci_11995301\">Pasadena Star News<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baldwin Park, California&#8217;s world famous skateboarding parrot Gordo, has reportedly been stolen from his cage and owner Fred Mirales is distraught, according to a story in the Pasadena Star News. The bird-napping occurred about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday as Gordo &#8211; a green Malaysian parrot from Guatemala &#8211; played in his cage on the front porch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}