{"id":4908,"date":"2015-11-05T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2015-11-05T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:56:53","slug":"kittens-under-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2015\/11\/05\/kittens-under-car.html","title":{"rendered":"Kittens Under Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is from Sorabji.MOBI. I would think even the tiniest kittens hiding underneath a car would skedaddle the moment they heard and felt the engine fire up. It reminds me of the old riddle: There are 4 crows on a telephone wire. You shoot one of them, killing it. How many are left? The wrong answer is &#8220;three&#8221;. The right answer is &#8220;zero&#8221; because the other birds would fly off at the sound of gunfire. Unless, of course, the sniper happened to be using a silencer and shooting from far enough away that the gunshot would be unheard. In that case I do not know enough about crows to know if the sudden death\/disappearance of one of theirs would spark any reaction. I vividly remember a swarm of seagulls circling around one of their dead when a kid from my grade school class threw something at a bird, knocking it to the ground and killing it. I had never seen or heard of Hitchcock&#8217;s <em>The Birds<\/em> at the time but I remembered this incident when I eventually saw it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4909\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4909\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151019_1731051.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sorabji.MOBI: Kittens Under Car\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4909\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorabji.MOBI: Kittens Under Car<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<link rel='stylesheet' id='all-css-3270287fb3d5c6901d09b0fcc3a6447f' href='https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/boost-cache\/static\/a9a1e5338e.min.css' type='text\/css' media='all' \/>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/boost-cache\/static\/17ddee82e5.min.js'><\/script>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" id=\"jquery-core-js\" src=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-includes\/js\/jquery\/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1\"><\/script>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" id=\"osm-map-startup-js-extra\">\nvar translations = {\"openlayer\":\"open layer\",\"openlayerAtStartup\":\"open layer at startup\",\"generateLink\":\"link to this map with opened layers\",\"shortDescription\":\"short description\",\"generatedShortCode\":\"to get a text control link paste this code in your wordpress editor\",\"closeLayer\":\"close layer\",\"cantGenerateLink\":\"put this string in the existing map short code to control this map\"};\n\/\/# sourceURL=osm-map-startup-js-extra\n<\/script>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/boost-cache\/static\/3a08fd3e94.min.js'><\/script>\n\n        <div id=\"map_ol3js_1\"\n       class=\"osm-map-container undefined\"\n             data-map_name=\"undefined\"\n             data-map=\"map_ol3js_1\"\n             data-autoshow=\"no\"\n             style=\"width:100%;\n                    max-width:100%;\n                    height:450px;\n                    display:block;\n                    overflow:hidden;\n                    border:2px solid grey;\n                    position: relative;\">\n          <div id=\"map_ol3js_1_popup\" class=\"ol-popup\">\n            <a href=\"#\" id=\"map_ol3js_1_popup-closer\" class=\"ol-popup-closer\"><\/a>\n            <div id=\"map_ol3js_1_popup-content\"><\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t  vectorM['map_ol3js_1'] = [];\n\t        \n        var raster = getTileLayer(\"osm\",\"NoKey\");\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t  var map_ol3js_1 = new ol.Map({\n\t\t\t\tinteractions: ol.interaction.defaults.defaults({mouseWheelZoom:false}),\n\t\t\t\tlayers: [raster],\n\t\t\t\ttarget: \"map_ol3js_1\",\n\t\t\t\tview: new ol.View({\n\t\t\t\t  center: ol.proj.transform([-73.982,40.774], \"EPSG:4326\", \"EPSG:3857\"),\n\t\t\t\t  zoom: 10\n\t\t\t\t})\n\t\t\t  });\n\t\t\t  addControls2Map(map_ol3js_1,0,0,3,0,5,6,7,0,1);\nosm_addPopupClickhandler(map_ol3js_1,  \"map_ol3js_1\"); \nosm_addMouseHover(map_ol3js_1); <\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Sorabji.MOBI. I would think even the tiniest kittens hiding underneath a car would skedaddle the moment they heard and felt the engine fire up. It reminds me of the old riddle: There are 4 crows on a telephone wire. You shoot one of them, killing it. How many are left? 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