{"id":141,"date":"2015-07-17T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2015-08-05T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:18:26","slug":"roger-tory-peterson-institute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/our-previous-travels\/chautauqua-2014\/roger-tory-peterson-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Tory Peterson Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone with even a passing interest in bird watching (the feathered kind, that is), one is likely to have used a copy of\u00a0<em>A Field Guide to Birds of North America- by\u00a0<\/em>Roger Tory Peterson. \u00a0His succinct descriptions and clear illustrations truly revolutionized \u00a0bird identification and made this pleasant and benign sport accessible to multitudes of would-be ornithologists \u2014 myself included.<\/p>\n<p>We visited the Institute which houses many of his original drawings &amp; sketches as well as many artworks of nature and ecology. \u00a0The displays were fascinating \u00a0and the building was fabulous. \u00a0While they did not want visitors taking pictures inside, I grabbed one of the main library area. \u00a0Gorgeous natural wood throughout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3439-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_3439\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3439-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3439-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3442.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3442-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_3442\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3442-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_3442-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone with even a passing interest in bird watching (the feathered kind, that is), one is likely to have used a copy of\u00a0A Field Guide to Birds of North America- by\u00a0Roger Tory Peterson. \u00a0His succinct descriptions and clear illustrations truly revolutionized \u00a0bird identification and made this pleasant and benign sport accessible to multitudes of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/our-previous-travels\/chautauqua-2014\/roger-tory-peterson-institute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roger Tory Peterson Institute<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":123,"menu_order":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/726"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}