{"id":3180,"date":"2026-04-04T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:17:09","slug":"a-signpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2026\/04\/a-signpost\/","title":{"rendered":"A Signpost"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect that what you\u2019re looking for is something that will actually confirm that you\u2019re a human being.
\nWe all have this terrible feeling of isolation and loneliness.
\nArt is a signpost.
\nIt\u2019s the thing that we do that makes us realize that we\u2019re not alone.
\nIt\u2019s the communication of the human spirit.
\nIt\u2019s the one area where you mustn\u2019t have caution or inhibition.
\nYou have to be prepared to crash your plane and walk away from it.<\/p>\n

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I suspect that what you\u2019re looking for is something that will actually confirm that you\u2019re a human being. We all have this terrible feeling of isolation and loneliness. Art is a signpost. It\u2019s the thing that we do that makes us realize that we\u2019re not alone. It\u2019s the communication of the human spirit. It\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","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=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}