{"id":3077,"date":"2022-03-29T22:09:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2022-03-29T22:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:09:16","slug":"march-exclusion-twenty-ninth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/3077","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(clusion) \u2014 twenty-ninth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cNothing, indeed, is so characteristic of Tolstoy as the painstaking attention he paid to his works. Even at a time when he was beginning to regard art as an evil, he remained the great artist who was never satisfied and in his search of unattainable perfection did not hesitate to criticize the best of his works.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 David Magarshack<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes I just want to hit my forehead against the double-brick facade of the Town House. After spending many hours over several days writing and refining a comprehensive artist statement for a major competition (with plenty of back-and-forth collaborative tension between Dana and me), I discover that a what I\u2019d thought was a limitation of 5000 words was instead an clearly specified 5000-character maximum. AAUGHH!     <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> The tiny brown bird with speckled breast and long tail, fidgeting on my newly clipped bush.<span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> An edgy wren, lady thrush, or juvenile sparrow? My ignorance is disclosed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNothing, indeed, is so characteristic of Tolstoy as the painstaking attention he paid to his works. Even at a time when he was beginning to regard art as an evil, he remained the great artist who was never satisfied and in his search of unattainable perfection did not hesitate to criticize the best of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,40,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077"}],"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=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}