{"id":11076,"date":"2018-07-05T00:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T07:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11076"},"modified":"2018-07-05T06:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:37:35","slug":"magnus-von-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/magnus-von-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnus von Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/artinfo-images-350.s3.amazonaws.com\/asi2-114208\/45.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of the painter of one of my all-time favorite red-breasted mergansers, the Finnish artist and ornithologist <a href=\"https:\/\/ateneum.fi\/nayttelyt\/the-von-wright-brothers\/?lang=enhttps:\/\/ateneum.fi\/nayttelyt\/the-von-wright-brothers\/?lang=en\">Magnus von Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/13\/Magnus_von_Wright_-_Portrait.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know rather little about him &#8212; wikipedia is my friend, I suppose &#8212; and I have never seen his most famous bird illustrations, published in the three-volume\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/svenska-faglar-efter-naturen-och-pa-sten-ritade-d-3\/oclc\/830938638\/editions?referer=di&amp;editionsView=true\">Svenska F\u00e5glar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I will learn more next July, no doubt, when we assemble in Stockholm on the 151st anniversary to explore the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ventbird.com\/birding-tour\/2019\/07\/04\/best-of-the-baltic\">birds and art of the Baltic Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of the painter of one of my all-time favorite red-breasted mergansers, the Finnish artist and ornithologist Magnus von Wright. I know rather little about him &#8212; wikipedia is my friend, I suppose &#8212; and I have never seen his most famous bird illustrations, published in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/magnus-von-wright\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnus von Wright&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076"}],"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=11076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}