{"id":8667,"date":"2014-05-30T03:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T10:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T18:39:48","slug":"illusionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/30\/illusionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to forget that something as familiar as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/exhibitions\/permanent-exhibitions\/birds-and-reptiles-and-amphibians-halls\/leonard-c.-sanford-hall-of-north-american-birds\/wading-birds-diorama\">the habitat group<\/a> had a beginning. It did, though, and apparently it took a little time for the fin de si\u00e8cle museum-going public to catch on.<\/p>\n<p>In 1908, the New York\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive-free\/pdf?res=F70716F63D5517738DDDA90B94D0405B888CF1D3\"><em>Times\u00a0<\/em>reported on the new bird exhibits at the American Museum<\/a>, completed at great expense and effort:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two or three days ago several young women were passing, but, attracted to the [mounted] birds in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelbycountyhistory.org\/schs\/archives\/women\/fwileywomena.htm\">the marsh [habitat group]<\/a>, stopped in front of the group. &#8220;That&#8217;s pretty good,&#8221; said one, &#8220;but I don&#8217;t see why the museum authorities allow that dirty water to stand there like that. You can smell it clear through the glass case, and I should think it would be unhealthy.&#8221; She was speaking of a celluloid preparation used as a water substitute which has no odor at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/var\/ezflow_site\/storage\/images\/media\/amnh\/images\/exhibitions\/permanent-exhibitions\/biodiversity-and-environment-halls\/milstein-hall-of-ocean-life\/91_df_wading-bird-dioramajlcrop\/710776-1-eng-US\/91_df_wading-bird-dioramajlcrop_dynamic_lead_slide.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard C. Sanford Hall of North American Birds, American Museum of Natural History<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easy to forget that something as familiar as the habitat group had a beginning. It did, though, and apparently it took a little time for the fin de si\u00e8cle museum-going public to catch on. In 1908, the New York\u00a0Times\u00a0reported on the new bird exhibits at the American Museum, completed at great expense &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/30\/illusionism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illusionism&#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":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667"}],"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=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}