{"id":3846,"date":"2015-02-21T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T00:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2024-12-21T12:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:25:39","slug":"chickens-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/content\/chickens-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"KERA Interview: Chickens In Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kera.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kera.jpg\" alt=\"kera\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chickens were domesticated 10,000 years ago. And in the time that\u2019s passed, humans have come to rely on them in ways that extend beyond our dinner plates. This hour, we\u2019ll talk about Earth\u2019s most important bird with Andrew Lawler, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Did-Chicken-Cross-World\/dp\/1476729891\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1420050341&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Why+Did+the+Chicken+Cross+the+World%3F+The+Epic+Saga+of+the+Bird+that+Powers+Civilization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? 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