{"id":17248,"date":"2017-07-19T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=17248"},"modified":"2017-08-19T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:21:23","slug":"ming-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/ming-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ming Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Recognizing my interest and abilities at an early age, I was enrolled in art classes throughout my childhood and adolescence. \u00a0This exposed me to many different forms of visual art, including brush painting which became my favorite of all.<\/p>\n<p>I feel that brush painting is a means to capture the human spirit, a key to my inner secret garden. \u00a0The brush is my magic wand, weaving colors into my paintings. \u00a0My art is my voice, a powerful interpretation of my deepest thoughts, hidden emotions, and strongest desires.<\/p>\n<p>I am in love and inspired by brush painting. \u00a0Although i participate in numerous other activities, my passion for brush painting exceeds all others by far.<\/p>\n<p>Featured in &#8220;Namaste&#8221; 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recognizing my interest and abilities at an early age, I was enrolled in art classes throughout my childhood and adolescence. \u00a0This exposed me to many different forms of visual art, including brush painting which became my favorite of all. I feel that brush painting is a means to capture the human spirit, a key to<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/ming-chen\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17249,"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-17248","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\/17248","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=17248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17250,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248\/revisions\/17250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}