{"id":596,"date":"2008-11-13T19:24:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=596"},"modified":"2008-11-13T19:24:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T23:24:20","slug":"the-glass-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/596","title":{"rendered":"The Glass Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass_flowers\">Created<\/a> in the late 1800s and early 1900s by Leopold (father) and Rudolph (son) Blaschka. They are amazingly realistic and beautiful pieces of work. I hesitate to call them art, only because they are intended to be neutral &#8211; an as accurate as possible representation of the subject &#8211; but they are certainly and example of craftsmanship of the first water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&#038;user_id=&#038;set_id=72157608820077312&#038;text=\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Again &#8211; apologies for the quality of some of the pictures. Next time I visit the museum I&#8217;ll do a better job, I promise (Brian &#8211; thanks for the suggestion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created in the late 1800s and early 1900s by Leopold (father) and Rudolph (son) Blaschka. They are amazingly realistic and beautiful pieces of work. I hesitate to call them art, only because they are intended to be neutral &#8211; an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/596\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","category-wunderkammer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-9C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}