{"id":185772,"date":"2014-10-19T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/19\/have-you-heard-of-the-sooty-owl-they-are\/"},"modified":"2014-10-19T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T13:08:44","slug":"have-you-heard-of-the-sooty-owl-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/19\/have-you-heard-of-the-sooty-owl-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard of the sooty owl? They are frightening and their eyes are probably hell portals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/moniquill.tumblr.com\/post\/98961923516\/have-you-heard-of-the-sooty-owl-they-are-frightening\" target=\"_blank\">moniquill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iguanamouth.tumblr.com\/post\/98198812482\/have-you-heard-of-the-sooty-owl-they-are\">iguanamouth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>i DID actually while i was looking up owls a while back oh MAN they have incredible faces, like some kinda confused ghost who ended up in a bird and now just has to live with it<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/9a06d88db42ae0f7ac8bc229b1ff831b\/tumblr_inline_ncc2o0RcD01qmoaae.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>looks like they come in lesser and greater sooty flavors, and theyre both pretty similar except for their sizes (about 43\u00a0cm for the greater, 37 for the lesser)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/692916fde5420f43d1819adadf792d0a\/tumblr_inline_ncc2kqDbV01qmoaae.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>theyre like someone took a barn owl and just lowered the brightness, threw some speckles in there, made their eyes a direct portal to the infinite nightmarish abyss, called it a day<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/c491bff79bbcd852253c36b75f09df2b\/tumblr_inline_ncc2lo3pr01qmoaae.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the YOUNG SOOTY OWLS on the other hand dont even look like real animals. they look like someone made a dodo out of felt and accidentally left it in a dryer. owls are great<\/p>\n<p>(photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lesser_sooty_owl\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooborns.com\/zooborns\/2012\/10\/two-sooty-owls-at-taronga-zoo.html\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/albertron\/7618548394\/\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tell me this isn\u2019t a psychopomp and I\u2019ll call you a damned liar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>moniquill: iguanamouth: i DID actually while i was looking up owls a while back oh MAN they have incredible faces, like some kinda confused ghost who ended up in a bird and now just has to live with it looks like they come in lesser and greater sooty flavors, and theyre both pretty similar except &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/19\/have-you-heard-of-the-sooty-owl-they-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Have you heard of the sooty owl? They are frightening and their eyes are probably hell portals.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[571,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}