{"id":9995,"date":"2015-05-10T00:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2015-05-10T03:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T10:40:56","slug":"happy-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/10\/happy-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fontenay Nativity by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/17203386538\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7706\/17203386538_1c32390ebc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fontenay Nativity\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lovely fragment, probably from the main altar at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ventbird.com\/birding-tour\/2016\/05\/29\/france-birds-art-in-burgundy\">Fontenay<\/a>, depicts the Nativity in a remarkably\u00a0different way.<\/p>\n<p>Ox and ass watch over the Child as a typically aged, infirm Joseph dozes on his crutch. But look at this Mary. <a href=\"https:\/\/ia902709.us.archive.org\/15\/items\/labbayedefontena00bgul\/labbayedefontena00bgul.pdf\">B\u00e9gule describes her<\/a> as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>reposing on a bed, her right arm gracefully folded beneath her head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, she&#8217;s on a bed all right. But there&#8217;s nothing &#8220;gracieuse&#8221; about her posture.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fontenay Nativity by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/17273884060\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8848\/17273884060_a6e9d31ed6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fontenay Nativity\" width=\"601\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not repose. That&#8217;s exhaustion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lovely fragment, probably from the main altar at Fontenay, depicts the Nativity in a remarkably\u00a0different way. Ox and ass watch over the Child as a typically aged, infirm Joseph dozes on his crutch. But look at this Mary. B\u00e9gule describes her as reposing on a bed, her right arm gracefully folded beneath her head. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/10\/happy-mothers-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Mother&#8217;s 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":[449],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995"}],"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=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}