{"id":988,"date":"2009-06-19T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/06\/19\/wildcards-and-constants\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:36:52","slug":"wildcards-and-constants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/988","title":{"rendered":"Wildcards and constants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp; <br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.dixondesign.com\/collage.html' title='dixon_us333.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dixon_us333.jpg' alt='Unconditional Surrender, 2009'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 155%; margin-top: 11px; margin-bottom: 22px; color: gray;\">\n<strong><em>Unconditional Surrender<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Andrew Dixon<br \/>\nMixed media collage, 2009<br \/>\nCollection of Nancy and Charles Martindale\n<\/p>\n<p>In a fashion more defined than recent memory serves, life unfolds with a stark blend of pleasing familiarity and jarring novelty. I take refuge in the naturally comfortable\u2014collage, reading, friendship, bicycling, my cherished clan\u2014while confronting strange and daunting challenges that offer few points of easy reference. The latter include new projects that require me to produce radio advertising, materials for patent registration, and a client-managed Website that relies on code I haven\u2019t learned to speak. It\u2019s helpful to remind myself that everything I\u2019ve ever done\u2014and a bit of it rather well\u2014began with the unfamiliar. At times it was stimulating or even exhilarating, and at other times it was intimidating or actually frightening. I realize now that the difference was rooted in nothing but my own attitude toward the unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Unconditional Surrender John Andrew Dixon Mixed media collage, 2009 Collection of Nancy and Charles Martindale In a fashion more defined than recent memory serves, life unfolds with a stark blend of pleasing familiarity and jarring novelty. I take refuge in the naturally comfortable\u2014collage, reading, friendship, bicycling, my cherished clan\u2014while confronting strange and daunting challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,18,8,34,14,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}