{"id":1010081,"date":"2022-03-03T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/look-gull-impaled-on-lightning-rod-rescued-from-massachusetts-church-roof\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:19:16","slug":"look-gull-impaled-on-lightning-rod-rescued-from-massachusetts-church-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/look-gull-impaled-on-lightning-rod-rescued-from-massachusetts-church-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Gull impaled on lightning rod rescued from Massachusetts church roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gull-impaled-on-lightning-rod-rescued-from-Massachusetts-church-roof.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Firefighters in Massachusetts rescued a herring gull that became stranded on the roof of a church when its wing was impaled on a lightning rod.<\/p>\n<p>Town of Medway officials said a detail officer working near St. Joseph Catholic Church in Medway spotted the gull on the roof of the building and soon realized the bird&#8217;s wing was impaled.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Medway Fire Department and the Millis Fire Department were summoned to the scene, and firefighters used a ladder truck to reach the roof of the church.<\/p>\n<p>The herring gull was carefully removed from the lightning rod and turned over to Medway\/Millis Animal Control officer Erin Mallette.<\/p>\n<p>Mallette said the gull is being cared for by veterinarians at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic in Grafton, and is expected to make a full recovery and be returned to the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3 (UPI) &#8212; Firefighters in Massachusetts rescued a herring gull that became stranded on the roof of a church when its wing was impaled on a lightning rod. Town of Medway officials said a detail officer working near St. Joseph Catholic Church in Medway spotted the gull on the roof of the building and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}