{"id":60,"date":"2003-04-17T17:45:49","date_gmt":"2003-04-17T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/04\/17\/metamorphosis\/"},"modified":"2003-04-17T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2003-04-17T21:45:49","slug":"metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/04\/17\/metamorphosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a10'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For several days, through yesterday morning, there was a smooshed sparrow slowly decomposing on the sidewalk on Broadway, on my walk to work.  But yesterday, as I was passing it on the way home, my usual greeting of &#8220;what up, bird?&#8221; was interrupted midstream by my surprise at its appearance.  A closer look revealed that someone had replaced the dead bird with a life-size, and lifelike, stuffed toy sparrow.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever did this &#8211; if by some cosmic coincidence you read this &#8211; your Art did not go unappreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several days, through yesterday morning, there was a smooshed sparrow slowly decomposing on the sidewalk on Broadway, on my walk to work. But yesterday, as I was passing it on the way home, my usual greeting of &#8220;what up, bird?&#8221; was interrupted midstream by my surprise at its appearance. A closer look revealed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}