{"id":2904,"date":"2012-10-17T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:01:48","slug":"new-artwork-ian-rogers-an-exultation-of-larks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/new-artwork-ian-rogers-an-exultation-of-larks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artwork \u2013 Ian Rogers \u2013 an Exultation of Larks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another\u00a0collective noun<\/a>\u00a0– today, an Exultation of Larks. Yes, I know that’s a cheat, but this is the grim reality an abecediarian faces. The variety of lark I chose for this illustration is the Calandra Lark<\/a>, one of the commonest lark species in Europe.<\/p>\n

\"Ian<\/p>\n

I briefly attended Sir John McCrae primary school in Guelph, Ontario, not far from the poet’s former home. For those of you unfamiliar with the poem In Flanders Fields<\/a>, it is a poem about World War I, and is where the custom of wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day<\/a>\u00a0comes from.<\/p>\n

In Flanders fields the poppies blow<\/span>
\nBetween the crosses, row on row<\/span>
\n….That mark our place; and in the sky<\/span>
\n….The larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/span>
\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/span><\/p>\n

– from In Flanders Fields<\/a>, by John McCrae<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another\u00a0collective noun\u00a0– today, an Exultation of Larks. Yes, I know that’s a cheat, but this is the grim reality an abecediarian faces. The variety of lark I chose for this illustration is the Calandra Lark, one of the commonest lark…<\/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":[678,210,362,472,588,214,229,117,627,454,455,626],"class_list":["post-2904","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-exultation-of-larks","tag-hand-lettering","tag-ian-rogers","tag-illustration","tag-john-mccrae","tag-montreal-illustrator","tag-quebec-illustrator","tag-remembrance-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-KQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","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=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}