{"id":7201,"date":"2016-03-05T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:50:04","slug":"three-little-phoebes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7201","title":{"rendered":"Three little phoebes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the locker room yesterday, I found a 1981 penny. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After\u00a0I started this project, I came to believe that when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=4516\" target=\"_blank\">someone who has died wants to send you a message<\/a>, they put a penny in your path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I couldn&#8217;t remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/groups\/died-1981\" target=\"_blank\">who had died in 1981<\/a>, so I had to look it up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two names jumped out at me: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrychapinmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Chapin<\/a>, whom I interviewed when I was a journalism student in college, just a year or so before he died;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bobmarley.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Marley<\/a>, whose\u00a0song <em>Three Little Birds<\/em> has been running through my head this week. (And even before that, when I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7134\" target=\"_blank\">three big spiders<\/a> in Cahuita.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think Chapin and Marley\u00a0both were sending me a message, but I&#8217;ll get to Harry later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Little_Birds\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Three Little Birds<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is the one that goes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don&#8217;t worry &#8217;bout a thing,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8217;cause every little thing gonna\u00a0be alright<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the midst of a week when I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7182\" target=\"_blank\">plenty to worry about<\/a>, I had calmed\u00a0myself by saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, every little thing is gonna be alright.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This morning when I was having our\u00a0roof fixed \u2013 did I mention that shingles are falling off my roof? \u2013 I heard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Eastern_Phoebe\/sounds\" target=\"_blank\">familiar cry<\/a> of the Eastern Phoebe. It sounds like a squeak toy that&#8217;s been stepped on &#8211; PHEEEE-be!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I called back at him, happy to hear this sign of spring. The phoebe lives in Georgia year-round, but they&#8217;re pretty quiet in the winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Eastern_Phoebe\/lifehistory\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a> tells us,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Eastern Phoebe is a loner, rarely coming in contact with other phoebes. Even members of a mated pair do not spend much time together. They may roost together early in pair formation, but even during egg laying the female frequently chases the male away from her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I talked to\u00a0the repair guy, I heard the phoebes very close by, and glanced\u00a0at the nearby tree. Three of them were madly\u00a0circling\u00a0each other, looking like something in a Disney movie &#8211;\u00a0presumably\u00a0two males competing with a female for attention. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three little birds<br \/>\nPitch by my doorstep<br \/>\nSingin&#8217; sweet songs<br \/>\nOf melodies pure and true<br \/>\nSayin&#8217;, &#8220;This is my message to you&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even phoebes sometimes get together with other phoebes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don&#8217;t worry &#8217;bout a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s penny is a 1980, for the year that <em>Three Little Birds<\/em> was released as a single. It was originally issued on the 1977 album <em>Exodus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-FOR-MARCH-5-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"2015 FOR MARCH 5\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-FOR-MARCH-5-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-FOR-MARCH-5-768x739.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-FOR-MARCH-5-1024x985.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2015-FOR-MARCH-5.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the locker room yesterday, I found a 1981 penny. After\u00a0I started this project, I came to believe that when someone who has died wants to send you a message, they put a penny in your path. I couldn&#8217;t remember who had died in 1981, so I had to look it up. Two names jumped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7201\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three little phoebes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[362,23,780,783,784,782,781],"class_list":["post-7201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tress","tag-362","tag-23","tag-bird","tag-bob-marley","tag-harry-chapin","tag-mating","tag-phoebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7208,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions\/7208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}