{"id":159,"date":"2010-01-02T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynneglazzard.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2010\/01\/02\/bird-inspired-things\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T17:33:00","slug":"bird-inspired-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/2010\/01\/02\/bird-inspired-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird inspired things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of bird inspired bits, relating to my residency at Whitby Museum. &nbsp;The museum has a large collection of Victorian stuffed birds (I am sure there is another name for them!). &nbsp;When I first began my residency I spent quite a lot of time sketching and doodling in that section of the museum, partly as I had always ignored them (a kind of dislike of old stuffed creatures I suppose). &nbsp;Anyway, over the year I have become quite fond of them and developed an obsession with the way in which birds have been used as motifs and patterns on objects everywhere. &nbsp;I made a few glass bird shaped beads which have been in my box of bits since last spring. &nbsp;Anyway, I have now made these. &nbsp;The left hand piece is actually a clasp for a bracelet I am planning. &nbsp;The charm is based upon various ceramic jars and pots in the museum that are long-legged birds. &nbsp;I think they are possibly from Africa originally &#8211; but I did also sketch some bird shaped ceramic vessels in the Etruscan museum in Rome while I was on holiday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/Sz-DFNEIHpI\/AAAAAAAABaE\/Xo1a6DtBPPY\/s1600-h\/Bird-clasp,-charm,-bead-1.jpg\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/Sz-DFNEIHpI\/AAAAAAAABaE\/Xo1a6DtBPPY\/s320\/Bird-clasp,-charm,-bead-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The glass bead is my first successful attempt as making a lamp worked glass bead over a silver core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of bird inspired bits, relating to my residency at Whitby Museum. &nbsp;The museum has a large collection of Victorian stuffed birds (I am sure there is another name for them!). &nbsp;When I first began my residency I spent quite a lot of time sketching and doodling in that section of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}