{"id":2055,"date":"2017-03-01T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2017-04-02T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T16:13:50","slug":"heading-into-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2055","title":{"rendered":"heading into March . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was stumped about an idea for Gwen\u2019s \u201c225\u201d show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentuckyliving.com\/lifestyle\/artists-celebrate-kentuckys-history\" target=\"_blank\">about Kentucky\u2019s history<\/a> until I turned off the radio on a drive to the farm. Dana had suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1275\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star of Abraham<\/em><\/a>, but I figured I needed to revise and extend it somehow. Near Hustonville it hit me: Lincoln\u2019s noteworthy declaration, \u201cI hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.\u201d I got down a flurry of thumbnail concepts in my journal when I arrived at the Blue Bank Hall. It was barely necessary to ever look at them again, because the development of the final idea took on a momentum of its own. Tonight I finished the home stretch of the artwork when I finished painting the lettering with acrylics, assembling the components for a photograph, and making the midnight deadline with a half hour to spare. As I enter into March, my thoughts are concerned with my annual exercise. Now that I have \u201cI Must Have Kentucky\u201d under my belt, I am committed to a series of low-stress improvements in my collage studio and work pattern. If I also complete some new experiments, that will be icing on the proverbial cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was stumped about an idea for Gwen\u2019s \u201c225\u201d show about Kentucky\u2019s history until I turned off the radio on a drive to the farm. Dana had suggested Star of Abraham, but I figured I needed to revise and extend it somehow. Near Hustonville it hit me: Lincoln\u2019s noteworthy declaration, \u201cI hope to have God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}