{"id":10094,"date":"2015-06-23T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10094"},"modified":"2015-06-23T12:57:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:57:51","slug":"book-review-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/book-review-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a negative review or two in my day, but I can&#8217;t remember ever cutting as deep as does Johann Georg Wagler in his assessment of\u00a0Juan Ignacio <a href=\"http:\/\/bibdigital.rjb.csic.es\/ing\/Libro.php?Libro=192\">Molina&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bibdigital.rjb.csic.es\/ing\/Libro.php?Libro=192\">Essay on the Natural History of Chile.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Difficult as Wagler had found it to work with John Latham&#8217;s catalogues,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>how much more annoying was\u00a0it when I attempted to identify the species of\u00a0each bird by the descriptions taken from Molina&#8217;s book, which was cobbled together as a torture for every scholar of ornithology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s remarkably poor form to respond to a review, but I bet poor Molina, then 87 years old, was tempted. I would have been.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bibdigital.rjb.csic.es\/ing\/Libro.php?Libro=192\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10095\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-23-15.54.15.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-06-23 15.54.15\" width=\"371\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-23-15.54.15.png 371w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-23-15.54.15-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a negative review or two in my day, but I can&#8217;t remember ever cutting as deep as does Johann Georg Wagler in his assessment of\u00a0Juan Ignacio Molina&#8217;s\u00a0Essay on the Natural History of Chile.\u00a0Difficult as Wagler had found it to work with John Latham&#8217;s catalogues, how much more annoying was\u00a0it when I attempted to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/book-review-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review of the Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[512,513,514,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10096,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions\/10096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}