{"id":200,"date":"2010-08-27T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2010-08-28T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T22:48:00","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#999999\"><i>2006<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Giving yourself to the possibility of learning from your actions.<\/p>\n<p>First time, making a painting with a visitor during <i>Twenty-five Cent Art Lessons<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A gentleman from Venezuela, a former boxer, his story without words comes out.<\/p>\n<p>The connection made because of the offer, to listen, to record, how specific or complete does my knowledge need to be?<\/p>\n<p>We draw a boat; it explains how he arrived to America.<\/p>\n<p>Last year in Macedonia during <i>Skopje Park Fun<\/i>, I set myself up with the task of pulling people about the park aboard a boat on wheels.<\/p>\n<p>The rope red and longer than needed afforded others to take up the slack, in spirit of want or need, people are heavy, and boats are heavy, visitors understood. Jana a friend helps connect my activity to a group of twelve boys, they\u2019re Albanians, bright eyed ranging in ages of 10 to 15 the power structure obvious, sometimes brutal, boys will be boys. <\/p>\n<p>Yet the activity they\u2019re inclined to participate in is my pulling, I feel conflicted, making others do my job, but they want, they appear to need and thrive in entertaining others, a position I\u2019ve maintained since an early age. I let go accepting a new role, occasionally attempting to correct their pulling when the riders seemed whip lashed by their exuberance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2006 Giving yourself to the possibility of learning from your actions. First time, making a painting with a visitor during Twenty-five Cent Art Lessons. A gentleman from Venezuela, a former boxer, his story without words comes out. The connection made because of the offer, to listen, to record, how specific or complete does my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielparsons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}