{"id":1484,"date":"2012-01-26T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2013-03-22T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:49:31","slug":"barfly-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2012\/01\/26\/barfly-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Barfly&#8217; Progress &#8211; gouging time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2012\/01\/photo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1485\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2012\/01\/photo2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2012\/01\/photo2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2012\/01\/photo2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So here is the first (work in progress) 9&#8243; x 12&#8243; lino from a series of four studies of &#8216;the barfly&#8217;. I didn&#8217;t want to use specific individuals as the focus of attention in case they offended anyone. Instead I opted for fictional characters, but all loosely based on observations from a collection of people. The four prints are titled <em>Wisdom, Knowledge, Humor and Ignorance<\/em> &#8211; but their narration is actually interpreted as<em> the old barfly, the one who thinks he knows everything<\/em> (the one in the photo), <em>the comedian and the one who invariably drinks his troubles away every night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I figure it&#8217;s going to take me a week to cut each of the four pieces. Then I can print them all together. What I wasn&#8217;t prepared for was the neck ache while I&#8217;m gouging! I can just imagine coming back off this sabbatical with chronic neck pain!<\/p>\n<p>More progress as it happens. G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here is the first (work in progress) 9&#8243; x 12&#8243; lino from a series of four studies of &#8216;the barfly&#8217;. I didn&#8217;t want to use specific individuals as the focus of attention in case they offended anyone. Instead I opted for fictional characters, but all loosely based on observations from a collection of people. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2012\/01\/26\/barfly-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Barfly&#8217; Progress &#8211; gouging time!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sabbatical-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}