{"id":2525,"date":"2012-08-27T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T18:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:03:42","slug":"new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-fesnyng-of-ferrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-fesnyng-of-ferrets\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artwork \u2013 Ian Rogers \u2013 a Fesnyng of Ferrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Appendix:Glossary_of_collective_nouns_by_collective_term\" target=\"_blank\">collective noun<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; today, a Fesnyng of Ferrets. Although it is difficult to track down the strict etymology of the term and there are many conflicting sources, some consensus exists that it arose from a transcription error in Middle English of the then-current word for &#8220;business&#8221;. The more modern term is indeed a &#8220;business&#8221; of ferrets, but &#8220;fesnyng&#8221;, though archaic, \u00a0is still in common use.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2526\" title=\"Ian Rogers - a Fesnyng of Ferrets\" src=\"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-fesnyng-of-ferrets.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Rogers - a Fesnyng of Ferrets\" width=\"792\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-fesnyng-of-ferrets.jpg 792w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-fesnyng-of-ferrets-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-fesnyng-of-ferrets-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ian-Rogers-a-fesnyng-of-ferrets-388x300.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another\u00a0collective noun\u00a0&#8211; today, a Fesnyng of Ferrets. Although it is difficult to track down the strict etymology of the term and there are many conflicting sources, some consensus exists that it arose from a transcription error in Middle English of&#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":[678,210,362,472,501,214,229,117,454,455],"class_list":["post-2525","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-collective-nouns","tag-fesnyng-of-ferrets","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-EJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}