{"id":1322,"date":"2010-03-17T07:34:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2010-03-17T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:39:51","slug":"art-damn-it-art-watch-5-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Art, damn it, art! watch (#5 in a series)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nifty profile in the <strong>NYT<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/17\/nyregion\/17coins.html?ref=todayspaper\">Beriah Wall<\/a>, who&#8217;s been producing and giving away ceramic &#8220;coins&#8221; for about 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The article includes photos of some of his work.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: Let me make it clear, I <strong>like <\/strong>Mr. Wall&#8217;s work very much.<\/p>\n<p>So, here, have a link to some more questionable art: John Kelso (the local excuse for a newspaper&#8217;s designated cranky curmudgeon columnist) on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/artwork-or-not-barton-barriers-could-stop-traffic-364692.html\">Barton Barriers<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;this more than 100-foot-long, 12-foot-wide, 10-foot-high cluster of 50 road barriers that are lit up at night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nifty profile in the NYT of Beriah Wall, who&#8217;s been producing and giving away ceramic &#8220;coins&#8221; for about 30 years. The article includes photos of some of his work. Edited to add: Let me make it clear, I like Mr. Wall&#8217;s work very much. So, here, have a link to some more questionable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-clippings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}