
{"id":1880,"date":"2012-07-20T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?page_id=1880"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:32:23","slug":"sheep-and-things","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/sheep-and-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheep and Things:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been taking pictures of carved sheep and such lately and thought I&#8217;d dedicate a page to them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>Oct 29, 2012<\/h5>\n<p>This is Good. Philadelphia Inquirer article.<br \/>\nMADRID &#8211; Spanish shepherds led a flock of more than 2,000 sheep through central Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing, migration and droving rights threatened by urban sprawl and modern agricultural practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/sheepMadrid.jpg\" alt=\"Inquirer article on Sheep in Madrid\" width=299\" height=\"169\" \/> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>Sept 23, 2012<\/h5>\n<p>&#8220;Henry Moore in a Sheep Meadow&#8221; by Red Grooms, 2000, cast Bronze. This sculpture is in The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundsforsculpture.org\/c_rgrooms.htm?phpMyAdmin=rx8QRmkftsxKCJORMPMdrElzfme\" title=\"Grounds for Sculpture\">Grounds for Sculpture<\/a> in NJ. I have a post of Henry Moore&#8217;s Sheep Sketchbook <a href=\" http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/henry-moores-sketchbook\/\" title=\"Henry Moore's Sketchbook.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/extra\/images\/sheep\/Henry-Moore-in-a-Sheep-Meadow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/Henry-Moore-in-a-Sheep-Meadow_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Moore in a Sheep Meadow\" by Red Grooms\" width=400\" height=\"225\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/extra\/images\/sheep\/Henry-Moore-in-a-Sheep-Meadow_detail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/Henry-Moore-in-a-Sheep-Meadow_detailsm.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Moore in a Sheep Meadow\" by Red Grooms\" width=400\" height=\"186\" \/> <\/a><br \/>detail of sheep<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>Sept 21, 2012<\/h5>\n<p>These Grazing &#8220;Cotswald Sheep&#8221; are by sculpture Charles Layland. They &#8220;live&#8221; in the sheep meadow at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-services.upenn.edu\/arboretum\/index.shtml\" title=\"Morris Aboretum\" target=\"_blank\">Morris Aboretum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/extra\/images\/sheep\/sheepMorris.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/sheepMorris_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep at Morris Arboretum\" width=400\" height=\"248\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>July 22, 2012<\/h5>\n<p>Since I like sheep, people give me sheep including these two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/extra\/images\/sheep\/toys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/toys_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Toy sheep\" width=300\" height=\"300\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p ?Here are the first three.<\/p>\n<p>The first was taken last year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartramsgarden.org\/\" title=\"Bartram's Sheep\" target=\"_blank\">Bartram&#8217;s Garden<\/a> in Philadelphia and the second this year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nemoursmansion.org\/\" title=\"Nemours' Sheep\" target=\"_blank\">Nemours<\/a> in DE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/extra\/images\/sheep\/sheepBartrams.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/sheepBartrams_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Bartram's Sheep\" width=251\" height=\"300\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/extra\/images\/sheep\/sheepNemours.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/sheepNemours_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Nemours' Sheep\" width=296\" height=\"300\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third is a small metal piece that might be a finial or handle. It is about 4&#8243; tall and has a place for a screw about 3\/8th wide in the base. Sort of a Janus, the Roman two headed god who looks forwards and backwards. January looks to the last year and forwards to the new. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/extra\/images\/sheep\/2Heads.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sheep\/2Heads_sm.jpg\" alt=\"2 Headed Metal sheep\" width=167\" height=\"300\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been taking pictures of carved sheep and such lately and thought I&#8217;d dedicate a page to them. Oct 29, 2012 This is Good. Philadelphia Inquirer article. MADRID &#8211; Spanish shepherds led a flock of more than 2,000 sheep through central Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing, migration and droving rights threatened by urban&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/sheep-and-things\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1880\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}