{"id":132,"date":"2003-07-10T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2005-02-04T12:41:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T10:41:22","slug":"wayne-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/10\/wayne-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"wayne barker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a fab dinner with Wayne
\nBarker<\/a> and "The Troyeville Uncles" at his place last night – what
\na bunch! Wayne did not like being called "not so enigmatic but undoubtedly
\ntalented" on my post from a few days ago. He says that "everyone is
\ntalented… I want to be enigmatic!" I couldn’t help but laugh :) In my world,
\nthere are very few people who are talented, and to be enigmatic is not necessarily
\na good thing; it was also, at the time that I wrote it, probably the last word
\nI would ever use to describe him (a bit redundant to say that, I think; just wanted
\nto be clear). But perhaps my misunderstanding of Wayne – despite how talented
\nI think he is, his seeing talent all around him – begins to make him a bit more
\nmysterious, er, enigmatic, than I initially thought him to be. Yay, art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a fab dinner with Wayne Barker and "The Troyeville Uncles" at his place last night – what a bunch! Wayne did not like being called "not so enigmatic but undoubtedly talented" on my post from a few days ago. He says that "everyone is talented… I want to be enigmatic!" I couldn’t help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-28","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/02\/talk-less\/","url_meta":{"origin":132,"position":0},"title":"talk less","author":"nathaniel","date":"02 July 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to the 24.7 artist residency, I've hooked up with the \"not so enigmatic but undoubtedly talented\" Wayne Barker this week. 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