{"id":510,"date":"2008-01-01T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-2008\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T06:54:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T13:54:33","slug":"happy-new-year-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><><><><><><><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im3\/palm08.jpg\" alt=\"Happy New Year 2008 by Fung Lin Hall\" \/> Palm tree trunks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jacketmagazine.com\/30\/perloff-palm.html\">Marjorie Perloff<br \/>\nThe Palm at the End of the Mind:<br \/>\nThomas Hines\u2019s Wilshire, Ed Ruscha\u2019s Sunset, Robbert Flick\u2019s Pico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This piece is about 13 printed pages long.<\/p>\n<p>The palm at the end of the mind,<br \/>\nBeyond the last thought, rises<br \/>\nIn the bronze d\u00e9cor,<\/p>\n<p>A gold-feathered bird<br \/>\nSings in the palm, without human meaning,<br \/>\nWithout human feeling, a foreign song.<\/p>\n<p>You know then that it is not the reason<br \/>\nThat makes us happy or unhappy.<br \/>\nThe bird sings. Its feathers shine.<\/p>\n<p>The palm stands on the edge of space.<br \/>\nThe wind moves slowly in the branches.<br \/>\nThe bird\u2019s fire-fangled feathers dangle down.<\/p>\n<p>             \u2014 Wallace Stevens, \u201cOf Mere Being\u201d[1]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Ruscha<\/strong> talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magical-secrets.com\/artists\/ruscha\/video\">the magic of Intaglio<\/a> (etching) process here on video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starr-art.com\/artists\/jim_dine\/crash\/Crash%20Drawing%20with%20White%20Cross%201959.jpg\">Crash<\/a> by Jim Dine and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artwork\/424927555\/163258\/john-baldessari-.html\">this from John Baldessar<\/a>i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm tree trunks Marjorie Perloff The Palm at the End of the Mind: Thomas Hines\u2019s Wilshire, Ed Ruscha\u2019s Sunset, Robbert Flick\u2019s Pico This piece is about 13 printed pages long. The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze d\u00e9cor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}