{"id":3341,"date":"2016-01-17T14:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2016-01-17T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T13:08:15","slug":"poe-boew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/01\/17\/poe-boew\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe Boew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the New York Public Library <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-01-14\/new-york-library-has-just-released-treasure-trove-incredible-archive-images\">opened up an enormous trove of their public domain digital assets<\/a> (scanned photographs, magazines, pamphplets, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I went looking for, of course, were <a href=\"https:\/\/wevboews.tumblr.com\">wevboews<\/a>. I always enjoy seeing historical mentions of them. Here&#8217;s an image (circa 1910) I found in a parody of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s <i>The Raven<\/i>, featuring not just an ordinary wevboew, but a <em>flying<\/em> one:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2016\/winged-boew.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1371\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A &#8220;Winged Boew&#8221; (from NYPL&#8217;s digital collection: Art and Picture Collection > Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection > Animals &#8212; Cattle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/\">http:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the New York Public Library opened up an enormous trove of their public domain digital assets (scanned photographs, magazines, pamphplets, etc.). The first thing I went looking for, of course, were wevboews. I always enjoy seeing historical mentions of them. Here&#8217;s an image (circa 1910) I found in a parody of Edgar Allan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/01\/17\/poe-boew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poe Boew&#8221;<\/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":[],"tags":[1803,1804],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wevboew","tag-wevboews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}