{"id":658593,"date":"2010-02-08T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a877961d970b"},"modified":"2010-02-09T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:30:57","slug":"injured-bald-eagle-gets-an-assist-and-a-repaired-beak-from-alaska-dentist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658593","title":{"rendered":"Injured bald eagle gets an assist, and a repaired beak, from Alaska dentist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktuu.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=422336;hostDomain=www.ktuu.com;playerWidth=480;playerHeight=384;isShowIcon=true;clipId=4522038;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=null;enableAds=true;landingPage=null;islandingPageoverride=true;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript_EMBEDDEDscript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An Alaska dentist has given a bald eagle a unique beak &#8212; using a temporary crown, sticky poster putty and yellow highlighter.\n<\/p>\n<p>The bird was found in December with severe damage to its beak, apparently from a fishing line that wrapped around it and started cutting into it.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Palmatier at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdtlc.net\/\">Bird Treatment and Learning Center<\/a> says staff members there decided to turn to dentist Kirk Johnson, who thought of patching up the beak with the same material used to make temporary crowns for people.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;crown&quot; is being held on with poster putty, and Johnson colored it in using highlighter to give it a yellow tint.<\/p>\n<p>The bird center says the eagle is doing just fine but won&#8217;t be able to return to the wild.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktuu.com\/\">KTUU.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alaska dentist has given a bald eagle a unique beak &#8212; using a temporary crown, sticky poster putty and yellow highlighter. The bird was found in December with severe damage to its beak, apparently from a fishing line that wrapped around it and started cutting into it. Cindy Palmatier at the Bird Treatment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Lkt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}