{"id":7703,"date":"2015-02-06T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2015-02-07T03:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T08:14:59","slug":"budgies-and-celebrities-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=7703","title":{"rendered":"Budgies and Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7704\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mm.jpg\" alt=\"mm\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mm-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mm-946x1024.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Marilyn Monroe had <b class=\"\"> two parakeets<\/b>, Butch and Bobo. Norman Rosten (<em>Marilyn: The Untold Story<\/em>) wrote about Butch: \u201cMarilyn calls to him; he sits on her shoulder, she coos and whistles, carries him to her lips, and ole Butch leans over and kisses her. \u2018You\u2019re a cute parakeet,\u2019 Marilyn says to Butch. Butch loves to hear her voice, figuring she\u2019s just as cute as a parakeet herself. I believe that Butch is in love with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*I couldn&#8217;t find a photo of Marilyn with a budgie, so these photos by Cecil Beaton will have to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Monroe had two parakeets, Butch and Bobo. Norman Rosten (Marilyn: The Untold Story) wrote about Butch: \u201cMarilyn calls to him; he sits on her shoulder, she coos and whistles, carries him to her lips, and ole Butch leans over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=7703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[7,1726,1168,2289,170,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}