{"id":3037,"date":"2011-06-01T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/06\/you-want-meaning\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:59:13","slug":"you-want-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/06\/you-want-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"You Want Meaning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a NY TIMES review of the book &quot;Shadows Bright As Glass&quot; about the strange but true tale of Jon Sarkin, a middle-aged chiropractor who, after having a stroke, becomes a prolific and successful artist. (http:\/\/jsarkin.com\/art\/)<\/p>\n<p>Sarkin&#39;s obsessive artistic output seems to function as an outlet for thoughts and feelings he cannot otherwise express \u2013 art that springs from the same reflex that inspired the first cave painting.<\/p>\n<p>So I was not surprised to read of Dr. Sarkin\u2019s response to a fan who asked him what his art meant. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean anything,\u201d he said. \u201cYou want meaning? Go get The Wall Street Journal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a NY TIMES review of the book &quot;Shadows Bright As Glass&quot; about the strange but true tale of Jon Sarkin, a middle-aged chiropractor who, after having a stroke, becomes a prolific and successful artist. (http:\/\/jsarkin.com\/art\/) Sarkin&#39;s obsessive artistic output seems to function as an outlet for thoughts and feelings he cannot otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","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=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}