{"id":10251,"date":"2019-10-19T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/19\/birds-of-a-green-and-yellow-feather-flock-together-in-artistic-glory"},"modified":"2019-10-19T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:00:18","slug":"birds-of-a-green-and-yellow-feather-flock-together-in-artistic-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10251","title":{"rendered":"Birds of a green and yellow feather flock together in artistic glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leila Jeffreys\u2019 ethereal images required 300 budgies, 20kg of birdseed and painting the birds\u2019 toenails <\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Growing up in India to an Indian mother and Anglo-Australian father, the artist Leila Jeffreys found herself drawn to the myriad rainbow-coloured birds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a real dreamer,\u201d she recalls over tea in Sydney, where she lives with her husband, son and dog, Ronnie Barker. \u201cWe travelled a lot and I never really knew the names of the places we went to. But if there was an animal or a bird I just zoned in. I imagined their stories and their lives. I always saw them and I saw their characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/19\/birds-of-a-green-and-yellow-feather-flock-together-in-artistic-glory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leila Jeffreys\u2019 ethereal images required 300 budgies, 20kg of birdseed and painting the birds\u2019 toenails \u2013 Growing up in India to an Indian mother and Anglo-Australian father, the artist Leila Jeffreys found herself drawn to the myriad rainbow-coloured &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,337,62,61,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-birds","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-western-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10259,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}