{"id":11022,"date":"2014-08-26T19:09:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=11022"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:47:32","slug":"michael-pitocchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/michael-pitocchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Pitocchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have always known that I possess artistic talent.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have known it since the first time I picked up a pencil or a crayon.\u00a0 it is something that lives at the very core of my essence.\u00a0 it is the way I think, the way that I formulate my thoughts.\u00a0 it is something that is intimately intrinsic to me, more intimate than my name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Creating a work of art for me is not hard.\u00a0 it is easy!\u00a0 It is easy not because of my training- I have no training- but it is easy because it is a part of my essential being.\u00a0 It conforms as closely as possible to my thought patterns and to the way I view reality.\u00a0 The point I am trying to make is that you can only give to a work of art what you have within you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can only take partial credit for the painting displayed here.\u00a0 As I was working on it, the painting seemed to have a mind of its own, and it seemed to be painting itself through my hand.\u00a0 It was a strange experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have always known that I possess artistic talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12851,"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-11022","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\/11022","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=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12853,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions\/12853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}