{"id":6877,"date":"2017-01-23T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2017-01-23T07:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:42:57","slug":"contrasting-images-of-the-natural-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/01\/23\/contrasting-images-of-the-natural-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrasting images of the natural world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two images of 'nature' have caught my eye this last few weeks. \u00a0The first was a pic\u00a0of tigers incarcerated\u00a0at ZSL (London Zoo, that was) opening their christmas presents. \u00a0That is, tearing the Christmas wrapping paper off large cardboard boxes. \u00a0Just a bit of fun for the warders, I guess, but the anthropomorphic vacuity in this is such that there is really no need for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>The second was a moving image. \u00a0Walking uphill on an absolutely silent Salisbury Plain towards the setting sun showed the land covered with long iridescent shimmering threads of spider silk as far as you could see. \u00a0They stretched from tussock to tussock, and bush to bush; such quiet natural industry. \u00a0There were no birds, no bangs, no traffic noise, no helicopters, just the silent silk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two images of 'nature' have caught my eye this last few weeks. \u00a0The first was a pic\u00a0of tigers incarcerated\u00a0at ZSL (London Zoo, that was) opening their christmas presents. \u00a0That is, tearing the Christmas wrapping paper off large cardboard boxes. \u00a0Just...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}