{"id":29633,"date":"2010-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/2010\/10\/06\/luckys\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T03:00:00","slug":"luckys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/luckys\/","title":{"rendered":"Luckys"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"750\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" class=\"style1\" scope=\"col\">\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-imgs\/10-6-10-luckys3.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"\/><br \/> (Bridge over Charles River at dusk, Cambridge, MA, 2002. Photo Socotra.)<br \/> <\/strong> <br \/> When I looked at it later, I realized it was one of the nicest pictures I have ever taken, and of course I had nothing whatsoever to do with it.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> An artist friend was quite enamored of it, and did a stunning poster-sized water color:<br \/> \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-imgs\/10-6-10-luckys4.jpg\" width=\"536\" height=\"799\"\/><br \/> <strong>(Cambridge sunset. Copyright 2003. All rights reserved to artist.)<br \/> <\/strong> <br \/> You can see that the tag has been altered in a subtle manner to accommodate my name. I really liked it, and decided that was the way to go.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Taking the bandage off my arm was going to provide a glimpse of four layers of art: the original tagger, whoever he was, the dumb circumstance of my photo, the talented hand of the artist, and finally Kevin\u2019s skill at transferring it to my skin.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> I wondered how it had turned out. Bonds looked on with mild interest as I tugged at the tape that held the bandage. I thought it was a little like the scenes in the movies when the plastic surgeon takes the wraps off someone\u2019s face, a brand-new visage to be revealed&#8230;<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Copyright 2010 Vic Socotra<br \/> www.vicsocotra.com <br \/> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/vicsocotra.com\/rss2.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to the RSS feed!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bridge over Charles River at dusk, Cambridge, MA, 2002. Photo Socotra.) When I looked at it later, I realized it was one of the nicest pictures I have ever taken, and of course I had nothing whatsoever to do with it. \u00a0 An artist friend was quite enamored of it, and did a stunning poster-sized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}