{"id":1767,"date":"2006-03-17T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2006\/03\/17\/still-at-the-airport\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:28","slug":"still-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/still-at-the-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Still at the airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the line, waiting for someone to reschedule my flight, i met this guy. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<i>What are you doing as a job?<\/i>&#8216; i asked,<br \/>\n&#8216;<i>Im a digital, video artist&#8217;<\/i> he answered.<\/p>\n<p>I was so struck i couldn&#8217;t say a word. I was struck by the fact that someone had the guts, and all that is needed, to call himself an artist. Meaning, artist as a job, a full time job.<\/p>\n<p>I admire that. <\/p>\n<p>Later he told me he lives in NY. Maybe it is common there to have people using &#8216;artist&#8217; as a title. I&#8217;ll be in NY in may.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the line, waiting for someone to reschedule my flight, i met this guy. &#8216;What are you doing as a job?&#8216; i asked, &#8216;Im a digital, video artist&#8217; he answered. I was so struck i couldn&#8217;t say a word. I was struck by the fact that someone had the guts, and all that is needed,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/still-at-the-airport\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still at the airport<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9119,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/9119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}