{"id":82,"date":"2009-01-03T15:14:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-01-03T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T19:14:33","slug":"self-portrait-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Self Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I entered the realm of dreams.\u00c2\u00a0 In this realm, I looked out a door, window, or balcony (the specifics are hazy) onto a world of pyramids, glassy and colored.<\/p>\n<p>Upon another time, whilst living in Sydney, I met a man who made paintings with spray paint and assorted bowls, cups, newspapers, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 He made pyramids.\u00c2\u00a0 I mentioned the dream.\u00c2\u00a0 He made me a painting.<\/p>\n<p>I have utterly and completely transformed that bright, colorful painting into something else behind me here.\u00c2\u00a0 And I have transformed myself into something utterly and completely unearthly, as befits the environment.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet I smirk.\u00c2\u00a0 And, with a thumb, I point back toward the realm of dreams, as though inviting you, as though hitching a ride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Self Portrait\" title=\"Self Portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3142\/3164147040_922d12602b.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Once upon a time, I entered the realm of dreams.\u00c2\u00a0 In this realm, I looked out a door, window, or balcony (the specifics are hazy) <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=82\" title=\"Self Portrait\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}