{"id":2960,"date":"2015-01-30T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2015-01-30T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T19:44:49","slug":"recommended-something-like-a-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/recommended-something-like-a-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended: Something like a Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Something_like_a_Nest_Cover-01sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2961\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Something_like_a_Nest_Cover-01sm.jpg\" alt=\"Something_like_a_Nest_Cover-01sm\" width=\"717\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Something_like_a_Nest_Cover-01sm.jpg 625w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Something_like_a_Nest_Cover-01sm-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The odd yet unmistakeable character of English country life is revealed in Andy Sewell&#8217;s new book, &#8216;Something like a Nest&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>View the images <a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.andysewell.com\/something-like-a-nest\/-\/images\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Andy Sewell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photographs are clearly a record of the countryside. But his pictures are about something less obvious: the redundancy of the ideas we have about the pastoral when they come up against modern life. As a knitting together of the artificial and unmade, the English countryside is a perfect expression of our unstable world. Sewell shows us a landscape governed by forces beyond individual or collective control. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind if we are provoked. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happy to make us laugh. There isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t something he needs us to believe. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to shatter our illusions, merely quieten them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to allow us to see the complexity of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s before us.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The odd yet unmistakeable character of English country life is revealed in Andy Sewell&#8217;s new book, &#8216;Something like a Nest&#8217;. View the images here. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Andy Sewell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photographs are clearly a record of the countryside. But his pictures are about something less obvious: the redundancy of the ideas we have about the pastoral when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}