{"id":621,"date":"2014-03-24T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:10:10","slug":"midway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/midway\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/midway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-622\" alt=\"midway\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/midway-791x1024.jpg\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/midway-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/midway-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/midway.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my submission for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/animuspanthera\/losing-altitude-a-collaborative-art-book\/\">Losing Altitude<\/a> collaborative art book, featuring endangered bird illustrations from a ton of talented artists.<\/p>\n<p>Since I like ducks, I chose to paint the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/users\/outgoing?http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laysan_Duck\">Laysan Duck<\/a> for the book. The Laysan was at one point in critical danger of extinction with a population of only 7 adults and 5 juveniles. By the 1950s they had recovered to around 500 individuals and later a small population was moved to Midway Atoll to ensure that any disasters on Laysan would not result in the extinction of the species. My painting is named &#8220;Midway&#8221; for Midway Atoll &#8211; it also makes reference to the fact that conservation is a continually ongoing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my submission for the Losing Altitude collaborative art book, featuring endangered bird illustrations from a ton of talented artists. Since I like ducks, I chose to paint the Laysan Duck for the book. The Laysan was at one point in critical danger of extinction with a population of only 7 adults and 5 &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/midway\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,132,131,136,134,133,16,91],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-621","6":"format-image","7":"category-watercolours","8":"post_tag-conservation","9":"post_tag-ducklings","10":"post_tag-ducks","11":"post_tag-endangered-bird","12":"post_tag-laysan","13":"post_tag-losing-altitude","14":"post_tag-watercolor","15":"post_tag-watercolour","16":"post_format-post-format-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}