{"id":1664,"date":"2009-12-12T23:02:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T23:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/happy-slothy-holidays-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2009-12-12T23:02:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T23:02:59","slug":"happy-slothy-holidays-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/happy-slothy-holidays-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Happy Slothy Holidays | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/olduvaigeorge\/4169648625\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2110\" title=\"sloth buell\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60c8d_sloth-buell.jpg\" alt=\"sloth buell\" width=\"324\" height=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Carl Buell, who illustrated <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/carlzimmer.com\/books\/tangledbank\/art.html\">many lovely critters<\/a> for my new book <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangled-Bank-Introduction-Evolution\/dp\/0981519474\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255373866&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>The Tangled Bank<\/em><\/a>, has been adding some new paintings to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/olduvaigeorge\/\">his Flickr stream<\/a>. Here&rsquo;s his holiday ground sloth.<\/p><p>In the caption, he writes: <em>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve certainly drawn and painted enough of them over the past 15 years. Ground sloths are a favorite subject. Too big to hide from the weather, this big guy just hunkered down and slept through the storm. It&rsquo;s hard to imagine these guys in snow, but Megalonyx ranged as far north as Alaska. Another Card idea that never got off the ground.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><p>Card or not, I&rsquo;m glad he&rsquo;s sharing his handiwork.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2_XIZIKEa3Aw4zPsalD1y2qJ2UU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60c8d_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2_XIZIKEa3Aw4zPsalD1y2qJ2UU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60c8d_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60c8d_GBSHWPym6U0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60c8d_e3mXYAr1t2E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Buell, who illustrated many lovely critters for my new book The Tangled Bank, has been adding some new paintings to his Flickr stream. Here&rsquo;s his holiday ground sloth.In the caption, he writes: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve certainly drawn and painted enough of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/happy-slothy-holidays-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}