{"id":8235,"date":"2013-08-07T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/?p=8235"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:22:27","slug":"the-eighty-ninth-of-may-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/the-eighty-ninth-of-may-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eighty-Ninth of May, 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>48&#8243; x 48&#8243;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/eightyninthofmay_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/eightyninthofmay_small-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"eightyninthofmay_small\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/eightyninthofmay_small-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/eightyninthofmay_small.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a hard-boiled son of a gun, related in theme to a number of paintings I&#8217;ve done of orphans, frontal group portraits of children.  Some of the children in the Orphans paintings may in fact be orphans for all I know, but more the point for me is that the source photographs are old enough to nearly ensure that all portrayed have all lived and died.  Then it&#8217;s not the child, but the image of the child, that is the orphan.  <\/p>\n<p>The surface of this four foot square canvas has been worked and scraped many times over the last year, was nearly cut off the stretchers recently.  Then I saw a grainy photograph of my great uncle&#8217;s second grade class that was recently published in the Baton Rouge newspaper. The caption recalls the two-room school house, the mule-drawn bus, the hand-me-downs.  I put the canvas back on the easel again and they hopped right on.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>48&#8243; x 48&#8243; This is a hard-boiled son of a gun, related in theme to a number of paintings I&#8217;ve done of orphans, frontal group portraits of children. Some of the children in the Orphans paintings may in fact be orphans for all I know, but more the point for me is that the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-gallery","category-paintings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8243,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/workaday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}