{"id":10672,"date":"2018-03-31T14:53:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2023-01-03T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:11:03","slug":"mouse-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/10672","title":{"rendered":"Mouse in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cYou can\u2019t really make ideas, create ideas. You know, all ideas are the same. They just wander by. If your house has mice, you never know when they\u2019re going to show up, or how, or in which room. and great ideas are the same. They\u2019re like mice. Just a mouse. A mouse in the house. And you step on its tail and you go, \u2018Hold it, buddy.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Jerry Seinfeld<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ideas will suggest ingredients, but, as often as not, ingredients will spark ideas. Actually, I prefer the latter. In discussing the groundbreaking Merz pictures of Schwitters, curator Isabel Schulz asserts that his materials \u201csurrender their original function \u2026 but not all semantic meaning.\u201d Those meanings can generate layers of additional meaning when ingredients combine in synergy. Before long, if the exterminator is not on site, the house is happily full of mice.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MouseInTheHouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MouseInTheHouse.jpg\" alt=\"Mouse in the House ~ collage miniature by John Andrew Dixon ~ Danville, Kentucky ~ Kentucky Crafted Mixed Media Artist\" title=\"Mouse in the House ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MouseInTheHouse.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Dixon_MouseInTheHouse-300x342.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 399px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Mouse in the House<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n4.75 x 5.5 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=6GUDZH2NTBK8A\" title=\"BUY NOW from Dixon Design through PayPal.\" style=\"display:visible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purchase this artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t really make ideas, create ideas. You know, all ideas are the same. They just wander by. If your house has mice, you never know when they\u2019re going to show up, or how, or in which room. and great ideas are the same. They\u2019re like mice. Just a mouse. A mouse in the house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,22,18,5,63],"tags":[90,308,325,313,324,326,309,310,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17207,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions\/17207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}