{"id":65192,"date":"2018-02-07T04:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=65192"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:51:20","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-which-british-animal-is-more-royal-than-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2018\/uncommon-knowledge-which-british-animal-is-more-royal-than-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Which British Animal is More Royal than the Rest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/swan-slippers?source=blog_uk_swan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65194 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/slippers_swan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a>Before you snatch a swan from London&#8217;s River Thames to keep as your pet, consider something first. Besides getting the graceful feathered animal through customs, you&#8217;d also be stealing from her royal highness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/her-majesty-the-queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>. By prerogative power, the \u201cSeignor of Swans\u201d (aka the Queen) owns every swan in open waters within England and Wales. It&#8217;s a peculiar statute that dates back to medieval times, when the birds were considered a delicacy and served on dinner tables of the super wealthy. They don&#8217;t eat them anymore, but being the animal lover she is, the Queen just can&#8217;t let them go. She even participates in a royal \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalswan.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swan Upping<\/a>.\u201d Every third week in July, Elizabeth\u2014or rather her team of \u201cupping\u201d experts\u2014gathers all unmarked swans, tags them, and sets them free. Is your dream crushed? Don\u2019t let this stop you! Should you become close friends with the sovereign, she <em>might<\/em> grant you ownership of your own royal swan. It may be worth sticking your neck out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/swan-slippers?source=blog_uk_swan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swan Slippers<\/a> | $34<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you snatch a swan from London&#8217;s River Thames to keep as your pet, consider something first. Besides getting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":65194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[2272,1387,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65256,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65192\/revisions\/65256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}