{"id":5698,"date":"2020-11-28T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5698"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:10:12","slug":"when-emily-carr-met-woo","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/when-emily-carr-met-woo\/","title":{"rendered":"When Emily Carr met Woo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5699\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-497x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-497x528.jpg 497w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-776x825.jpg 776w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-768x816.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-1445x1536.jpg 1445w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-375x399.jpg 375w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-750x797.jpg 750w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1-1140x1211.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/MK-1.jpg 1882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>Emily Carr was known for her menagerie of animals.\u00a0 She bred dogs, had several cats, a parrot, and a pet rat, but she is perhaps most remember for the Javanese macaque she found at a Victoria pet shop in 1923.\u00a0 This story is captured in the Youth collection book \u201cWhen Emily Carr Met Woo\u201d by Monica Kulling and illustrated by Dean Griffiths.\u00a0 While tragedy nearly befell Woo in this story, in life he was a muse for Carr for some 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>She named the monkey \u201cWoo\u201d after the sound he made while riding on Carr\u2019s shoulders as she strolled the Victoria harborside, typically pushing an old pram filled with puppies and other pets.\u00a0 This scene is permanently captured in a 2010 sculpture of Carr, Woo, and the dog Billie by Barbara Paterson, sited prominently near the harbor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Winter 2021 issue of the <em>Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Carr was known for her menagerie of animals.\u00a0 She bred dogs, had several cats, a parrot, and a pet rat, but she is perhaps most remember for the Javanese macaque she found at a Victoria pet shop in 1923.\u00a0 This story is captured in the Youth collection book \u201cWhen Emily Carr Met Woo\u201d by Monica Kulling and illustrated by Dean Griffiths.\u00a0 While tragedy nearly befell Woo in this story, in life he was a muse for Carr for some&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/when-emily-carr-met-woo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Emily Carr met Woo<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[1086,22],"class_list":["post-5698","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-botanical-illustration","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/5698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}