{"id":398,"date":"2009-09-11T06:03:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T14:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-09-11T06:03:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T14:03:35","slug":"winston-the-pigeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/winston-the-pigeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston the pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fascinating wrinkle where those pesky computers are concerned, a story out of Africa should warm the heart of even the most jaded cyber-punk. Coming to us from lovely Johannesburg, it appears that &#8220;a business needing to send 4GB of data 50 miles put Winston the pigeon up against the Web \u2013 and Winston won.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It gets better &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0910\/p06s12-woaf.html\">&#8220;Winston arrived after two hours, six minutes, and 57 seconds,&#8221; says Kevin Rolfe, head of the information technology department at Unlimited Group, a call-center business based in Durban. As for the Internet data transfer, he says, &#8220;when we finally stopped the computer, about 100 megs had transferred, which is about 4 percent of the total.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope PETA doesn&#8217;t find out!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fascinating wrinkle where those pesky computers are concerned, a story out of Africa should warm the heart of even the most jaded cyber-punk. Coming to us from lovely Johannesburg, it appears that &#8220;a business needing to send 4GB of data 50 miles put Winston the pigeon up against the Web \u2013 and Winston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}