{"id":6754,"date":"2016-04-26T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2016-04-26T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:10:32","slug":"a-heart-for-jack-unruh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/6754","title":{"rendered":"A Heart for Jack Unruh"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy amazing, wonderful father has just been diagnosed with esophageal cancer that seems to have spread. Please include him in your thoughts and prayers. We can use all the positive energy you can send.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Susan Unruh<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack has been the yardstick that almost every illustrator\/designer (certainly in the Southwest) has used to measure his or her own level of accomplishment.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Woody Pirtle<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the wide world of artists found out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jack.unruh.5\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jack Unruh<\/strong><\/a>, the modern master of pen illustration, was facing an aggressive disease, it became the catalyst for a phenomenal outpouring of love and creativity. There must be countless individuals like me, who have never met him or worked with him, and yet we are pulling for him every day, because the singularity of his vision, the authenticity of his approach, and the affection for subject that he communicates \u2014 all have left a deep impression for many years. In sync with many creative professionals, I have joined the surge of \u201chearts beating a path to his door\u201d in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to send Jack a heart, too, his address easily can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/jackunruh.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">at his fabulous website<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_JackUnruhHeart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Dixon_JackUnruhHeart.jpg\" title=\"A Heart for Jack Unruh ~ created by John Andrew Dixon for master illustrator Jack Unruh\" alt=\"A Heart for Jack Unruh ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"333\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6729\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 344px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><em><strong>A Heart for Jack Unruh<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n5.5 x 5.25 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy amazing, wonderful father has just been diagnosed with esophageal cancer that seems to have spread. Please include him in your thoughts and prayers. We can use all the positive energy you can send.\u201d \u2014 Susan Unruh \u201cJack has been the yardstick that almost every illustrator\/designer (certainly in the Southwest) has used to measure his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,18,188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754"}],"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=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}