{"id":14241,"date":"2013-12-30T23:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14241"},"modified":"2013-12-30T23:05:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:05:38","slug":"wynwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14241","title":{"rendered":"Wynwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my cousin and I went to the Wynwood, a part of Miami where all the building exteriors are painted with art.  I had never heard of it before, and it was fabulous.<\/p>\n<p>So much creativity, variety, and sheer fun.  It made me realize that so much of what we call &#8220;art&#8221; falls into one of two traps.  Either it&#8217;s really about mondy and commerce, or it&#8217;s about some kind of self-conscious attempt to be &#8220;important&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These delightful works are not at all self-important, and they are not about money.  What they are is bold, exuberant, fun, life-affirming, slyly humorous, mysteriously personal, and filled with craft.<\/p>\n<p>Below are but two of countless examples that brightened my day today:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/man-with-bug.png\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/crochet.png\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my cousin and I went to the Wynwood, a part of Miami where all the building exteriors are painted with art. I had never heard of it before, and it was fabulous. So much creativity, variety, and sheer fun. It made me realize that so much of what we call &#8220;art&#8221; falls into one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wynwood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14246,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241\/revisions\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}