{"id":994129,"date":"2022-02-16T20:41:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/look-mystery-emu-on-the-loose-in-virginia\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T20:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:41:37","slug":"look-mystery-emu-on-the-loose-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/look-mystery-emu-on-the-loose-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Mystery emu on the loose in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mystery-emu-on-the-loose-in-Virginia.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Animal control officers in Virginia said an emu has been on the loose for at least two weeks &#8212; and no one knows where it came from.<\/p>\n<p>The Franklin County Animal Shelter posted a grainy photo to Facebook showing the emu as spotted recently by a witness.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shelter officials said reported sightings indicate the large, flightless bird has been on the loose for at least two weeks, and possibly longer.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Lamb, manager of the Franklin County Animal Shelter, said animal control officers are searching for the emu this week in areas where sightings have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lamb said officials do not know where the loose emu escaped from, as no owners have come forward or reported an Australian bird missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212; Animal control officers in Virginia said an emu has been on the loose for at least two weeks &#8212; and no one knows where it came from. The Franklin County Animal Shelter posted a grainy photo to Facebook showing the emu as spotted recently by a witness. Advertisement Shelter officials said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994129","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\/994129","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=994129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}