{"id":2230,"date":"2021-12-03T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:48:38","slug":"fun-distraction-medieval-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2021\/12\/03\/fun-distraction-medieval-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Distraction: Medieval Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2236\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/FD_MedievalArt.jpg\" alt=\"Image advertising the Library\u2019s FUN Distractions series post about animals in medieval art\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/FD_MedievalArt.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/FD_MedievalArt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/FD_MedievalArt-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/FD_MedievalArt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/FD_MedievalArt-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/FD_MedievalArt-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Medieval artists had some strange ideas about what exotic animals looked like. Makes sense when you think about how they probably never saw these animals in person and only knew them from the descriptions of explorers. Check out this very entertaining journey through the art of exotic animals in medieval texts from Curious Archive.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jnB2Uj7gWSE\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/jnB2Uj7gWSE<\/a><br \/><br \/>#memoriallibraryfundistractionsseries<br \/>#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary <br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medieval artists had some strange ideas about what exotic animals looked like. Makes sense when you think about how they probably never saw these animals in person and only knew them from the descriptions of explorers. Check out this very entertaining journey through the art of exotic animals in medieval texts from Curious Archive. https:\/\/youtu.be\/jnB2Uj7gWSE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-distractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}