{"id":100,"date":"2020-06-13T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:53:25","slug":"the-bird-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/the-bird-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bird House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3d\/Tropical_Bird_House%2C_Dudley_Zoo_-_Percy_Shakespeare.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>The Bird House<\/em>, exhibited 1939, oil on canvas, 750 x 905mm, Dudley Museum &amp; Art Gallery.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Art Deco Bird House at Dudley Zoo was a building designed by the Tecton Group of Architects, the firm of the great Russian Architect, Berthold Lubetkin and built around 1937. Dudley Zoo contains some twelve Tecton buildings and was planned to strike a blow against the urban sprawl of the Depression-hit West Midlands. On the zoo&#8217;s\u2019 opening day, 250,000 people turned up to see a glimpse of a brighter, cleaner and more modern way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dudleyzoo.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bird-House-CC47_572-copy-e1485190332392-781x580.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/38915454\/Object_in_Focus_It_s_all_happening_at_the_Zoo_Percy_Shakespeare_Tropical_Bird_House_Dudley_Zoo_c_1939_\">Article<\/a>  &#8211; Object in Focus: It\u2019s all happening at the Zoo \u2013 Percy Shakespeare, Tropical Bird House, Dudley Zoo (c.1939) &#8211; Samuel Shaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bird House, exhibited 1939, oil on canvas, 750 x 905mm, Dudley Museum &amp; Art Gallery. The Art Deco Bird House at Dudley Zoo was a building designed by the Tecton Group of Architects, the firm of the great Russian Architect, Berthold Lubetkin and built around 1937. Dudley Zoo contains some twelve Tecton buildings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.percyshakespeare.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}