{"id":11018,"date":"2016-10-01T19:19:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2016-12-14T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:28:28","slug":"jon-a-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/jon-a-peterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon A. Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was born to art, drawing as early as I could pick up a pencil, and took lessons throughout my childhood and all during high school, along the way falling in love with watercolor.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other interests, however, led me to become a professional historian, to a professorial career at Queens College, CUNY, and to expertise on the origins of the city planning movement in the United States.\u00a0 At retirement, I returned to watercolor, an endlessly fascinating and complex medium.\u00a0 I paint what most attracts me: landscapes, cityscapes, highways and flowers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was born to art, drawing as early as I could pick up a pencil, and took lessons throughout my childhood and all during high school, along the way falling in love with watercolor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}