{"id":772,"date":"2012-05-03T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2012-05-03T23:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:14:45","slug":"how-fast-can-an-ostrich-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/how-fast-can-an-ostrich-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Out for a Jog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News reports say that <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5907346\/very-little-jogging-can-make-your-life-much-much-longer\">even a little jogging can make your life longer<\/a>. Except if you do it on a street in Saudi Arabia, as this bird found out:<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzLkNQETuX4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know precisely where in Saudi Arabia this video was taken. Google Translate appears to say it was on King Fahd Street in Abha Abha(?). Since I&#8217;m not a Muslim, I guess I&#8217;ll never have the opportunity to check it out first hand, but actually it looks like a pretty squalid place. The streets are paved, but only just barely, and the buildings all look like they should say &#8220;Checks Cashed Here&#8221; or (ironically) &#8220;Liquor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(The video link comes from JWZ, who titles it &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwz.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/buzzard-bait\/\">buzzard bait<\/a>.&rdquo; Judging from how careful the drivers are to avoid the ostrich, he may be right. But it&#8217;s fun to watch the bird just trotting along. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ostrich\">Wikipedia says<\/a> they can run up to 43 mph. Based on that, I&#8217;d guess the bird in the video isn&#8217;t even breaking a sweat.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News reports say that even a little jogging can make your life longer. Except if you do it on a street in Saudi Arabia, as this bird found out: I don&#8217;t know precisely where in Saudi Arabia this video was taken. Google Translate appears to say it was on King Fahd Street in Abha Abha(?). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[23],"tags":[517,519,518,516,520],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arabia","tag-jwz","tag-ostrich","tag-saudi","tag-speed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}