{"id":5885,"date":"2012-05-31T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:40:28","slug":"professor-starlings-thetford-london-oxford-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/professor-starlings-thetford-london-oxford-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Starling\u2019s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CAM2Lo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5886\" title=\"CAM2Lo\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CAM2Lo-500x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CAM2Lo-500x340.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CAM2Lo-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CAM2Lo.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just published our latest entry in the <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?cat=976\" target=\"_blank\">City As Material<\/a> series: &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=2587\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Starling\u2019s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition&#8217;<\/a> \u2013 three books documenting the investigative excursions of Professor William Starling and his research team (Lisa Hirmer and Andrew Hunter of <a href=\"http:\/\/dodolab.ca\" target=\"_blank\">DodoLab<\/a>, Josephine Mills of the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge artist Leila Armstrong, and Giles Lane and Hazem Tagiuri of Proboscis) during his trip to the United Kingdom in Feburary, where he sought to examine the rapid disappearance of the European Starling in contrast to the continued expansion of its North American cousin.<\/p>\n<p>The first volume<em>,<\/em><em> Perquisitions<\/em>, contains descriptions of the various participants\u2019 thoughts on the expedition and its rationale.<em> Congeries<\/em> showcases selected items and ideas collected during their travels, and the final volume<em>, <\/em><em>Speculations<\/em>, offers reflections and fantastical musings on the\u00a0material gathered and testimonies heard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Purchase a limited edition copy\u00a0complete with specially printed ribbon <a href=\"http:\/\/proboscis.org.uk\/store.html#profstarling\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>(Read the accounts of <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pFZZm-1qQ\" target=\"_blank\">Thetford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/city-as-material-2-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/city-as-material-2-oxford\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford<\/a> on the blog)<a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/city-as-material-2-oxford\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just published our latest entry in the City As Material series: &#8216;Professor Starling\u2019s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition&#8217; \u2013 three books documenting the investigative excursions of Professor William Starling and his research team (Lisa Hirmer and Andrew Hunter of DodoLab, Josephine Mills of the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge artist Leila Armstrong, and Giles Lane and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[91,79,102,17,183,139],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-city-as-material","tag-diffusion","tag-dodolab","tag-ebooks","tag-professor-starling","tag-short-run-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}