{"id":233,"date":"2008-06-01T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T01:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:49:30","slug":"man-makes-money-off-of-pet-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/man-makes-money-off-of-pet-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Makes Money Off of Pet Vulture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man from a rural part of Minas Gerais is making lots of money off of his pet <i>urubu <\/i>(vulture), Loira. Loira, which means blonde girl in Portuguese, appears at special events for R$1,200 per appearance. Loira&#8217;s owner, C\u00e9lio Luiz da Silva, participates in paragliding competitions, where Loira&#8217;s presence is frequently requested. She even helps the fliers find the right wind currents.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><\/div>\n<p>When C\u00e9lio travels with Loira, they stay together in the same hotel room, though Loira sleeps in the bathroom. Unlike wild vultures, Loira prefers cooked meat, though she does enjoy a nice pig&#8217;s head once in awhile.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9lio&#8217;s dream is for Loira to appear at a Flamengo soccer game in Rio de Janeiro, since Flamengo&#8217;s mascot is an <i>urubu<\/i>. However, C\u00e9lio is afraid that if Loira accidently flew into the opposing team&#8217;s crowd, she might get hurt.<\/p>\n<p>To see some very silly photos of Loira and her owner, <a href=\"http:\/\/g1.globo.com\/Noticias\/Brasil\/0,,MUL583016-5598,00-PRODUTOR+RURAL+DIZ+QUE+URUBU+DE+ESTIMACAO+PAGA+SUAS+CONTAS.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from a rural part of Minas Gerais is making lots of money off of his pet urubu (vulture), Loira. Loira, which means blonde girl in Portuguese, appears at special events for R$1,200 per appearance. Loira&#8217;s owner, C\u00e9lio Luiz da Silva, participates in paragliding competitions, where Loira&#8217;s presence is frequently requested. She even helps&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/man-makes-money-off-of-pet-vulture\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845],"tags":[2608],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-news","tag-urubu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}