{"id":3612,"date":"2012-01-25T22:26:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T02:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2012-01-25T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T02:26:24","slug":"sherwood-anderson-unlighted-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/sherwood-anderson-unlighted-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherwood Anderson: Unlighted Lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sherwood2.jpg\" alt=\"sherwood anderson\" title=\"sherwood anderson\" width=\"333\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sherwood2.jpg 333w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sherwood2-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following up my recent fiction book post, this is a paper cutting I did in 2008 of my favorite author, Sherwood Anderson, posted originally in that same year (see all posts relating to Sherwood Anderson <b><a href=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?s=sherwood+anderson\">HERE<\/a><\/b>). I added the color in photoshop with the thought that I could emulate the neon psychedelic style of Victor Moscoso, whose art I admire greatly and has inspired me in major ways and is now one of my facebook friends &#8212; that blows my mind a little bit. I posted about him back in 2008 <b><a href=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=67\">HERE<\/a><\/b>. I digress. My purpose for posting this is to pass on a link to one of Sherwood&#8217;s short stories, and maybe one of the most powerful short stories I&#8217;ve ever read: <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readbookonline.net\/read\/142\/4140\/\">Unlighted Lamps<\/a><\/b>. He has an amazing way of portraying the inner psyche of each of his characters, which I love.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, he died from a stomach infection after accidently swallowing the tip of his toothpick that broke off in his martini. Drink carefully, friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up my recent fiction book post, this is a paper cutting I did in 2008 of my favorite author, Sherwood Anderson, posted originally in that same year (see all posts relating to Sherwood Anderson HERE). I added the color in photoshop with the thought that I could emulate the neon psychedelic style of Victor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}