{"id":952,"date":"2009-03-14T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/03\/14\/ripe-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T08:07:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:07:38","slug":"ripe-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/952","title":{"rendered":"Ripe thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March exercise&#8212;day fourteen&#8212;<\/span> It\u2019s a rule of thumb that it will rain whenever I need to deliver physical artwork, but I managed satisfactorily to get a new set of engravings over to the Art Center and also had my first chat with the incoming executive director. So, if you need it to rain in your town, just arrange a display of my artwork and that should take care of it. Not you, Brendan; I\u2019m quite sure you get enough precipitation out there, although it would be cool to have some of my art make it to the west coast. I get ideas like that, but there\u2019s often not a lot to back them up. Maybe I missed my chance when I was churning out some interesting collages while Ian was in L.A. Many ideas are fresh and I get right to them. Others hang around so long they become annoying, until I realize it\u2019s me at whom I\u2019m perturbed, for allowing them to rot, or, worse than that, I get sick and tired of chattering about them in my head without any action. Ideas like that are usually disavowed, or I just get fed up and finally proceed with one, invariably pushing away another newer, more stimulating notion that just stands there listening to the other one grumble, \u201cMove aside, buster, I\u2019ve got seniority.\u201d<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> A black and white print in a plastic holder on the wall, somehow seeming tiny and drab <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> but that\u2019s<em> my engraving <\/em>featured next to the gift shop\u2019s doorway.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Avoid the lure of Sunday languor and prepare for an ambitious workweek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March exercise&#8212;day fourteen&#8212; It\u2019s a rule of thumb that it will rain whenever I need to deliver physical artwork, but I managed satisfactorily to get a new set of engravings over to the Art Center and also had my first chat with the incoming executive director. So, if you need it to rain in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,35,18,20,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}