{"id":66,"date":"2019-11-07T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/?p=66"},"modified":"2019-12-05T02:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T07:34:53","slug":"1-the-nightingale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/2019\/11\/07\/1-the-nightingale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nightingale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Final-Nightingale-Image-1.png\"><\/a><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/11\/Nightingale-Project-True-Absolute-100-Final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/11\/Nightingale-Project-True-Absolute-100-Final-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"462\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-604\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/Final-Nightingale-Image-1.png\"><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an image of the nightingale who is too in love with the rose to go on the journey. I chose to depict the nightingale at rest, as he has no desire to leave the rose\u2019s side. While he stares transfixed at his love, he fails to notice some important details of the world around him, such as the petal falling off the flower or the Simorgh\u2019s tail feathers in the top right corner of the scene. The petal is meant to symbolize the brevity of life, and the nightingale\u2019s failure to acknowledge his love\u2019s short life makes him far less likely to ever want to seek out eternal greatness in the Simorgh. The Simorgh is actually the light source for the shot, and the bird\u2019s positioning\u00a0<\/span>underneath the branch is meant to symbolize his ignorance of God. The flower is turned to the Simorgh and away from the bird, showing that even the most basic forms of life are capable of acknowledging the Simorgh\u2019s authority as the one above all. I made this picture using grid-paint.com, a free pixel art creation studio.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-66-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/FINAL-FINAL-NIGHTINGALE_mixdown-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/FINAL-FINAL-NIGHTINGALE_mixdown-1.mp3\">\/conferenceofthebirds\/files\/2019\/10\/FINAL-FINAL-NIGHTINGALE_mixdown-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Background music: Original composition for Santur<br \/>\n<\/em><em>by Danial Shariat<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an image of the nightingale who is too in love with the rose to go on the journey. I chose to depict the nightingale at rest, as he has no desire to leave the rose\u2019s side. While he stares transfixed at his love, he fails to notice some important details of the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/conferenceofthebirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}