{"id":84334,"date":"2026-09-12T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=84334"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:34:07","slug":"singapore-artist-draws-65-vilified-native-species-in-colourful-field-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=84334","title":{"rendered":"Singapore artist draws 65 \u2018vilified\u2019 native species in colourful field guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013<!-- --> Even as an animal-loving child, illustrator and author Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray suffered a recurring nightmare of being helplessly strangled by a muscular boa constrictor while at sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Today, Lizeray, 44, is an advocate of the \u201cvilified\u201d serpent as the creator of a new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/arts\/17-singapore-books-to-look-forward-to-for-the-rest-of-2026?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">Snakes Of Singapore: A Slightly Unhinged Field Guide (2026).<\/span><\/a> She diagnoses her nightmare as a symptom of having internalised the smear campaigns snakes have been victim to in popular culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/arts\/its-hard-to-be-a-snake-spore-artist-draws-65-vilified-native-species-in-colourful-field-guide?ai-allowed\\u003d1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Even as an animal-loving child, illustrator and author Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray suffered a recurring nightmare of being helplessly strangled by a muscular boa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}