{"id":17237,"date":"2017-07-19T12:23:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=17237"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:58:33","slug":"john-parasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/john-parasco\/","title":{"rendered":"John Parasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my youth I dabbled in drawings, as a teen I attempted a couple of oils&#8211;as a husband, father and work dog&#8211;I laid it down for 30 years. \u00a0Since I have created space in my life, I&#8217;ve enjoyed reawakening a passion for expression. \u00a0As I have never taken an art lesson or studied it in school I&#8217;ve settled on the ease of acrylics for the most part. \u00a0As regards to subject matter- a slice of life realism captures most of my work. \u00a0People, their lives, surroundings, emotional engagements interest me most.<\/p>\n<p>Featured in &#8220;Namaste&#8221; 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In my youth I dabbled in drawings, as a teen I attempted a couple of oils--as a husband, father and work dog--I laid it down for 30 years. \u00a0Since I have created space in my life, I've enjoyed reawakening a passion for expression. \u00a0As I have never taken an art lesson or studied it in<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/john-parasco\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17238,"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-17237","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\/17237","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=17237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17239,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions\/17239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}