{"id":28,"date":"2007-04-09T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/2007\/04\/09\/to-be-an-artist\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T03:00:40","slug":"to-be-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/2007\/04\/09\/to-be-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"To be an artist-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Art can only mean something to the artist who creates it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I found these lines a little unsettling, although i feel like this is a reaccuring issue throughout the semester and that I have heard them before. Where are we all connected, if we are at all? Are we all chained to one another like circus elephants? I&#8217;m not sure if there is an inherent connection or point where we all relate. I think that painting move me for different reasons then the person standing next to me, but I think it still means something to me. I love Degas&#8217; ballerinas, probably because I danced for 10 years, but I am touched by them, the details, the colors. Yet, there is something unsettling about a piece that you create yourself. I love the photos that I hand developed and I am forever attatched to the poems that I write. I&#8217;m not sure if they will mean something to anyone, but there is a possibility. They could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Art can only mean something to the artist who creates it.&#8221; I found these lines a little unsettling, although i feel like this is a reaccuring issue throughout the semester and that I have heard them before. Where are we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/2007\/04\/09\/to-be-an-artist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/umwbeffy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}