{"id":2132,"date":"2013-02-22T17:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2013-02-22T17:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:48:05","slug":"the-wombat-is-a-joy-a-triumph-a-delight-a-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2135\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wombatfriday2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2135\" class=\" wp-image-2135\" alt=\"Wombat Friday\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wombatfriday2.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wombie the World-Travelling Wombat looks nervous in the face of so much arsenic and adultery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I emerge from a week of sinus infection horror raring to plough through the pile of books I&#8217;ve accrued and to &#8211; finally! &#8211; take part in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23wombatfriday&amp;src=hash\">#WombatFriday<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0the rest of the Victorianists on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re unaware of the long and illustrious saga of the noble marsupial in art history, pick up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1904750605\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1904750605&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ratwingle-21\">Rossetti&#8217;s Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London<\/a>\u00a0and enjoy\u00a0the account of Rossetti&#8217;s wombat, Top, plodding up to Ruskin (in mid-flow on the subject of communal artistic living as a means of saving humanity) to snuggle between his coat and waistcoat.\u00a0Ruskin, being British and not the host, carried on &#8220;wring[ing] his hand and soul&#8221;\u00a0as though nothing was happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I emerge from a week of sinus infection horror raring to plough through the pile of books I&#8217;ve accrued and to &#8211; finally! &#8211; take part in\u00a0#WombatFriday\u00a0with\u00a0the rest of the Victorianists on Twitter. If you&#8217;re unaware of the long and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=2132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,20,3,7],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blah-blah-history-blah-blah","tag-prb","tag-reading","tag-rossetti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}