{"id":644,"date":"2015-09-23T22:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisagriffen.com\/main\/?p=644"},"modified":"2015-09-23T23:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T23:01:05","slug":"outsider-artist-andrew-blythe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/outsider-artist-andrew-blythe\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsider artist Andrew Blythe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I became aware of the work of New Zealander Andrew Blythe through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/artofoutsiders\">Outsider Art<\/a> Facebook page. After looking through an album of his art, which uses pattern and a limited palette, I clicked on the Youtube video of him talking about his work. <\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I try to beautify my beasts.&#8221; That floored me. You know when you read or hear the perfect phrase and think, &#8220;I wish I&#8217;d thought of that&#8221;? With that line, Andrew Blythe nailed something I&#8217;ve been trying to say about my art for the past few years. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLy2KXN5J28\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I became aware of the work of New Zealander Andrew Blythe through the Outsider Art Facebook page. After looking through an album of his art, which uses pattern and a limited palette, I clicked on the Youtube video of him talking about his work. He said, &#8220;I try to beautify my beasts.&#8221; That floored me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,1],"tags":[24,13,51,10,52,15],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riisgriffen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}