{"id":1247,"date":"2006-06-30T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T08:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/who-said-artists-are-having-it-easy-all-the-time\/"},"modified":"2006-06-30T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T08:20:01","slug":"who-said-artists-are-having-it-easy-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/who-said-artists-are-having-it-easy-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"who said artists are having it easy all the time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Froud&#8217;s first day of installing his mega-mobile at the Department of Science and Technology did not pass without major hiccups.&nbsp; Both the suppliers of scaffolding and the engineers were late with delivery, which cost the artist a bunch in money and time. <br \/>Sixteen metres above groundfloor, <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/sixteen-metres-in-the-air.thumbnail.jpg?w=850\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>more problems concerning inadequate drillbits and ceiling specifications hampered installation. <br \/>Tomorrow is another day, and the work WILL be hanging by the end of day two, an adamant artist explains..<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/bitsnpieces.thumbnail.jpg?w=850\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/the-artist.thumbnail.jpg?w=850\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Froud&#8217;s first day of installing his mega-mobile at the Department of Science and Technology did not pass without major hiccups.&nbsp; Both the suppliers of scaffolding and the engineers were late with delivery, which cost the artist a bunch in money and time. Sixteen metres above groundfloor, more problems concerning inadequate drillbits and ceiling specifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flickr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-k7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1611,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/artist-blog-versus-the-work-itself\/","url_meta":{"origin":1247,"position":0},"title":"Artist-Blog versus The-Work-Itself","author":"BradyDale","date":"04 April 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Every artist should have a website, or at least a blog. 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