{"id":620,"date":"2011-06-17T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/06\/17\/110617-paintspill\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:27:02","slug":"110617-paintspill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/06\/17\/110617-paintspill\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what category this goes in, but I picked &#8220;Art&#8221; because it&#8217;s the sort of thing that probably draws big bucks in a Manhattan gallery. Heck, for all I know it really is a piece of performance art:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/greenpaintspill.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a can of green paint spilled in a parking lot\"><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I imported this photo &#8211; which, incidentally, was shot in the parking lot of Academy Sports this afternoon &#8211; that I realized that the dark stain off to the right gives the scene a weird 3D look, making the paint spill and can appear to be floating above the asphalt. That alone qualifies it as art in my book.<\/p>\n<p><i>Note to whomever lost control of their Valspar: don&#8217;t cry about it; I can assure you that this paint looks much better where it is than where you had planned to put it.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what category this goes in, but I picked &#8220;Art&#8221; because it&#8217;s the sort of thing that probably draws big bucks in a Manhattan gallery. Heck, for all I know it really is a piece of performance art: It wasn&#8217;t until I imported this photo &#8211; which, incidentally, was shot in the parking&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/06\/17\/110617-paintspill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Throwing Green<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-just-plain-silly","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8411,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/8411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}