{"id":2444,"date":"2012-08-08T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:04:00","slug":"new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-clowder-of-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-clowder-of-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artwork &#8211; Ian Rogers &#8211; a Clowder of Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem this is more than just a passing fancy, it looks like I&#8217;m working up to an abecediary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Appendix:Glossary_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term\" target=\"_blank\">collective nouns<\/a>. Today, cats. Or more specifically, a clowder of cats. Looking at online etymological sources, clowder comes from clutter, which comes from clot. I suppose a clot of cats would sound less appealing &#8211; clowder it is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2445\" title=\"Ian Rogers - a Clowder of Cats\" src=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-Clowder-of-Cats.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Rogers - a Clowder of Cats\" width=\"750\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-Clowder-of-Cats.jpg 750w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-Clowder-of-Cats-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-Clowder-of-Cats-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-Clowder-of-Cats-387x300.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am told through the Book of Faces that today is actually World Cat Day, making this a particularly appropriate collective noun choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem this is more than just a passing fancy, it looks like I&#8217;m working up to an abecediary of collective nouns. Today, cats. Or more specifically, a clowder of cats. Looking at online etymological sources, clowder comes from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[207,221,116,228],"tags":[678,210,362,475,472,214,229,117,454,455],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calligraphy-and-lettering","category-drawing","category-illustrators","category-my-sketchbook","tag-abecedary","tag-calligraphy","tag-canadian-illustrator","tag-clowder-of-cats","tag-collective-nouns","tag-hand-lettering","tag-ian-rogers","tag-illustration","tag-montreal-illustrator","tag-quebec-illustrator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-Dq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}