{"id":2877,"date":"2015-01-11T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/why\/"},"modified":"2015-01-11T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:45:21","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From a commencement address<\/a> delivered by designer Greil Marcus:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the impulse behind art? It\u2019s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, \u201cIf I could move you as much as it moved me \u2026 if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that\u2019s why I do what I do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

[thanks, BP<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  From a commencement address delivered by designer Greil Marcus: What\u2019s the impulse behind art? It\u2019s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, \u201cIf I could move you as much as it moved me \u2026 if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}