{"id":275,"date":"2008-08-04T18:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-08-04T18:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:12:26","slug":"rabbits-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2008\/08\/04\/rabbits-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbits In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mum and dad went to someplace called the &#8220;Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8221; this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Dad said we couldn&#8217;t come along because our constant disapproval would&#8217;ve shattered the sculptures and set the old paintings on fire.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s no fun.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/2732782965\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3121\/2732782965_fecc41ce1a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"egyptian bunny\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Above: <\/strong>Forget cats, the Egyptians apparently also thought rather highly of rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>Quite possibly the earliest depiction of &#8220;rabbit dissaproval&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/2733616008\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3293\/2733616008_c109ba7f5d.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"japanese bunny plate\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> Is that a bird or a rabbit?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/2733615936\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3259\/2733615936_cf10ebf579.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"japanese bunny plate info card\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it&#8217;s a &#8220;rabbit running in field.&#8221; If you ask me, I would&#8217;ve titled it &#8220;rabbit giving you the foot-flick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/2733615890\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3014\/2733615890_610c4ecdf8.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"japanese bunnies\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whoah! Those are some tough looking bunnies! (Is that bottom one holding a lizard in its mouth? Ewww!) The top one looks like he&#8217;s about to charge! This is undoubtedly the last work by this artist, as he didn&#8217;t survive the encounter with such vicious rabbits.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have some of the best selections of rabbit art throughout the ages.<\/p>\n<p>I, of course, completely dissaprove.<\/p>\n<p>-Gus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2008\/02\/28\/dads-been-taking-pictures-again\/guss-newer-portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"212,158\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Gus&amp;#8217;s Newer Portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-128\" title=\"Gus\\'s Newer Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gus-portrait.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mum and dad went to someplace called the &#8220;Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8221; this weekend. Dad said we couldn&#8217;t come along because our constant disapproval would&#8217;ve shattered the sculptures and set the old paintings on fire. He&#8217;s no fun. Above: Forget cats, the Egyptians apparently also thought rather highly of rabbits. Quite possibly the earliest depiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[10,46],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-pictures","tag-gus","tag-rabbit-disapproval"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-4r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}