{"id":9399,"date":"2024-05-13T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=9399"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T05:59:26","slug":"is-this-thing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=9399","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; is this thing on?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re in touch with the complaints department, please tell them this year is going too fast, and explain that I&#8217;ve been a little more on the d\/l of late due to illness\/injury, and I&#8217;d like both of these conditions rectified asap. OK?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In more interesting news, I can heartily recommend an article from the AJF website with the new <em><strong>AJF Young <\/strong><\/em>award winner, Bryan Parnham. <a href=\"https:\/\/artjewelryforum.org\/articles\/checking-in-with-bryan-parnham_2024-young-artist-award-winner-natl-usa_5-22-2024\/\">Touching Base with Bryan Parnham<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He makes a few good points. Among them: how do we end up indoctrinated into protecting our little un-fortified pavilion inside the greater art\/craft world, when we could be the eco-shuttle that traverses into all corners of that body? And the eternal &#8211; are we still &#8220;teachers teaching artists to become teachers&#8221;? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AND he makes fabulous work, eminently wearable. Those are a pair of his earrings that I own &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t choose between the concrete block and the tyre, so went with the ever-eloquent &#8220;Porque no los dos?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in touch with the complaints department, please tell them this year is going too fast, and explain that I&#8217;ve been a little more on the d\/l of late due to illness\/injury, and I&#8217;d like both of these conditions rectified asap. OK? In more interesting news, I can heartily recommend an article from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,107,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dialogue","category-jewellery","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}