{"id":1804,"date":"2011-06-09T09:25:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2011-06-09T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:25:16","slug":"we-interrupt-this-new-york-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2011\/06\/we-interrupt-this-new-york-trip.html","title":{"rendered":"We Interrupt This New York Trip…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…to relay a conversation with my son. Tuesday was an early release day, so I took my kids and a friend to the MFA<\/a> to see the Dale Chihuly<\/a> show. (Which was a big hit. My son declared “Mille Fiori” to be the “most awesome thing [he’s] ever seen!”)<\/p>\n

On the way there, my son asked me, “Do people become artists because they can’t find other jobs?” (Keep in mind the boy’s grandmother<\/a> is an artist.)<\/p>\n

Later, after I told Adam what he said, Adam told the boy, “You know, if I were out of work, I don’t think I could be an artist. I can’t draw.”<\/p>\n

To which the boy logically replied, “Well, in that case, you could be an abstract artist.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…to relay a conversation with my son. Tuesday was an early release day, so I took my kids and a friend to the MFA to see the Dale Chihuly show. (Which was a big hit. My son declared “Mille Fiori” to be the “most awesome thing [he’s] ever seen!”) On the way there, my son […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,3],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}