{"id":10341,"date":"2015-09-07T06:21:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10341"},"modified":"2015-09-07T06:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:21:03","slug":"pretty-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/pretty-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We &#8212; or at least I &#8212; so often forget about Robert Ridgway as a painter, giving all our attention instead to his <a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/the-other-ridgway-and-the-2013-aba-bird-of-the-year\/\">talented brother John<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I have occasion or an excuse to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/bibliography\/7493#\/summary\">the Baird\u00a0<em>History<\/em><\/a>, though, I&#8217;m struck anew by how sensitive and appealing the plates are that Robert Ridgway painted for the book (some of them under vigorous protest, <a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/book.asp?isbn=9780300175523\">as Dan Lewis informs us<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ridgway-Baird-History-Plate-25.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10342\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ridgway-Baird-History-Plate-25.png\" alt=\"Ridgway Baird History Plate 25\" width=\"605\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ridgway-Baird-History-Plate-25.png 605w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ridgway-Baird-History-Plate-25-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t they lovely?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We &#8212; or at least I &#8212; so often forget about Robert Ridgway as a painter, giving all our attention instead to his talented brother John. Every time I have occasion or an excuse to use the Baird\u00a0History, though, I&#8217;m struck anew by how sensitive and appealing the plates are that Robert Ridgway painted for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/pretty-faces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretty Faces&#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":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341"}],"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=10341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}