{"id":1285,"date":"2013-02-20T19:38:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2013-02-20T19:38:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:38:39","slug":"thank-you-supernanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/thank-you-supernanny\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Supernanny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CaptureGuineasTeaTime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1286\" alt=\"CaptureGuineasTeaTime\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CaptureGuineasTeaTime-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CaptureGuineasTeaTime-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CaptureGuineasTeaTime.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last night it took over 30 minutes to herd the 9 young guineas back into their newly\u00a0<a title=\"Fox Bites Leg Off Young Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/fox-bites-leg-off-young-guinea\/\">fortified <\/a>cage for tea and safe sleeping. \u00a0 As I walked round and round the cage bringing them back to the door, I kept thinking of the TV show Supernanny. \u00a0Some parents trying discipline for the first time have to keep putting their kids back in bed for up to 2 hours on the first night of the regime. \u00a0 The theory is the first time you say &#8220;it&#8217;s time for bed darling&#8221;, the second time, &#8220;it&#8217;s time for bed&#8221; and the third time onwards, you don&#8217;t say anything you just keep taking them back. \u00a0The persistence seemed to have worked and I was hugely relieved that it only took 2 minutes tonight. \u00a0The first couple of birds went in almost immediately and I only had to bring the birds back round once for the rest to go in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uwn0HK7Y-nA?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night it took over 30 minutes to herd the 9 young guineas back into their newly\u00a0fortified cage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guinea-fowl","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CaptureGuineasTeaTime.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}