{"id":2747,"date":"2012-11-28T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:59","slug":"leila-jeffreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/leila-jeffreys\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer: Leila Jeffreys"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was a child, my Nana owned a cockatiel just like Jarra (photo above, right) named Vito. We taught him to say ‘pretty bird’ and ‘turkey bird’ (I’m not so sure where that term came from). So when I saw these delightful portraits from Leila Jeffreys<\/a> I was instantly won over.<\/p>\n

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When I was a child, my Nana owned a cockatiel just like Jarra (photo above, right) named Vito. We taught him to say ‘pretty bird’ and ‘turkey bird’ (I’m not so sure where that term came from). So when I saw these delightful portraits from Leila Jeffreys I was instantly won over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[16,199],"tags":[450,448,1876,449],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-photography","tag-birds","tag-leila-jeffreys","tag-photography","tag-wild-cockatoos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-Ij","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10409,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/my-hand-the-nightingale-and-the-rose\/","url_meta":{"origin":2747,"position":0},"title":"My Hand \/\/ The Nightingale and the Rose","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This binding was featured very briefly on the blog last year in\u00a0my review of the North Bennet Street School's 2015 Student and Alumni Show. 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