{"id":2773,"date":"2012-09-25T15:35:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:02:31","slug":"new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-quarrel-of-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-quarrel-of-sparrows\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artwork \u2013 Ian Rogers \u2013 a Quarrel of Sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another\u00a0collective noun<\/a>\u00a0– today, a Quarrel of Sparrows. Today, I learned that I really should try to forget everything I thought I knew about birds. When I was a kid, my dad would point out the names of all the birds we saw. For years, I thought that male starlings were grackles. Today, I learned that what I thought were chickadees are, in fact, male sparrows. Thanks, Dad.<\/p>\n

\"Ian<\/p>\n

It is pretty funny watching wee little sparrows knocking the living heck out of each other; they really tussle. For all their tininess, they take their fighting very seriously and go at it all the time. A “quarrel” is a pretty appropriate group name, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another\u00a0collective noun\u00a0– today, a Quarrel of Sparrows. Today, I learned that I really should try to forget everything I thought I knew about birds. When I was a kid, my dad would point out the names of all the birds…<\/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":[678,210,362,472,214,229,117,454,548,455],"class_list":["post-2773","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-hand-lettering","tag-ian-rogers","tag-illustration","tag-montreal-illustrator","tag-quarrel-of-sparrows","tag-quebec-illustrator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-IJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","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=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}