{"id":87620,"date":"2019-02-10T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/patrick-doughertys-mind-blowing-nest-houses-made-of-living-trees"},"modified":"2019-02-10T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:22:45","slug":"patrick-doughertys-mind-blowing-nest-houses-made-of-living-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/patrick-doughertys-mind-blowing-nest-houses-made-of-living-trees","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dougherty\u2019s Mind-Blowing Nest Houses Made of Living Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patrick-doughertys-mind-blowing-nest-houses-made-of-living-trees.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, this isn\u2019t the work of some gigantic bird. The living <a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/art\/\">art<\/a> you see before you was actually done by man \u2014 more specifically, artist and branchbender extraordinaire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stickwork.net\/\">Patrick Dougherty<\/a>. Crafting human-sized <a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/grow-your-own-treehouse\/\">nest houses<\/a> made by actually <a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/video-grow-a-living-treehouse-with-terreform\/\">weaving growing trees into the shapes of houses<\/a>, cocoons, pagodas, huts, giant water pitchers and even people, Dougherty has traveled the world with his truly extraordinary sculptures. Click through our photo gallery for images of some of his coolest work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/patrick-doughertys-mind-blowing-nest-houses-made-of-living-trees\/\">https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/patrick-doughertys-mind-blowing-nest-h...ing-trees\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this isn\u2019t the work of some gigantic bird. The living art you see before you was actually done by man \u2014 more specifically, artist and branchbender extraordinaire Patrick Dougherty. Crafting human-sized nest houses made by actually weaving growing trees into the shapes of houses, cocoons, pagodas, huts, giant water pitchers and even people, Dougherty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}