{"id":28,"date":"2003-03-17T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2003-03-17T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:42:05","slug":"africa-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/17\/africa-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"africa, it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!<br \/>\n  Sigh.<br \/>\n  It was just one of those days, today. I decided to give it to myself &#8211; make<br \/>\n  art, run errands, make art some more &#8211; rather than doing freelance work and<br \/>\n  prepping lectures. I spent almost the <i>entire<\/i> day in Johannesburg traffic<br \/>\n  (NOT a pretty site), going from one paper store and photocopy place to another,<br \/>\n  then back again, for supplies and prints that I want to use for one new art<br \/>\n  project (not telling, but is similar to the next one in style) and one incomplete<br \/>\n  art project (go <a href=\"\/gallery\/habstract.html\" target=\"_top\">here).<\/a> No<br \/>\n  art was made. Only 1\/4 of the supplies were bought. I spent a lot of money.<br \/>\n  And Bush is a jerk.<br \/>\n  So, this is Africa?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Sigh. It was just one of those days, today. I decided to give it to myself &#8211; make art, run errands, make art some more &#8211; rather than doing freelance work and prepping lectures. I spent almost the entire day in Johannesburg traffic (NOT a pretty site), going from one paper store and photocopy [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":763,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/art-south-africa-is-powerless\/","url_meta":{"origin":28,"position":0},"title":"art | south africa is powerless","author":"nathaniel","date":"11 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is probably related to this other post about the lack of reviews of emerging artists in joburg... 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