{"id":9115,"date":"2011-04-03T00:17:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=9115"},"modified":"2013-08-25T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T07:54:06","slug":"flower-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2011\/04\/03\/flower-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This beautiful flower arrangement I stumbled upon today has got to be the world’s most colourful interpretation of the Atlas myth.<\/p>\n

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Flower arrangement representing Atlas. By Sandy Hine and Anne Harman (Photo: Tim Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Greek mythology, the punishment meted out by Zeus to Atlas for his siding with the Titans against the Olympians was to carry the heavens on his shoulders for all time.<\/p>\n

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Atlas at the Rockefeller Centre (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re familar with the statues of muscular bearded guys kneeling under spheres – sometimes with the earth substituted for the heavens.\u00a0 And in her book and film Longitude<\/em><\/a>, author Dava Sobel tells how as a child she was inspired by the Atlas statue outside New York’s Rockefeller Centre.<\/p>\n

The Atlas arrangement by Sandy Hine and Anne Harman is one of many on display under the theme Myths & Legends at the annual Florimania exhibition<\/a> running 1-3 April at Hampton Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This beautiful flower arrangement I stumbled upon today has got to be the world’s most colourful interpretation of the Atlas myth. In Greek mythology, the punishment meted out by Zeus to Atlas for his siding with the Titans against the Olympians was to carry the heavens on his shoulders for all time. We’re familar with … Continue reading Flower Atlas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92,446,230,1109,17],"tags":[1133,1131,1130,1134,1132,1135],"class_list":["post-9115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-botany","category-events","category-history-of-science-history","category-visits","tag-flower-arranging","tag-greek-mythology","tag-atlas","tag-florimania","tag-flowers","tag-hampton-court"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-2n1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17623,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions\/17623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}