{"id":806,"date":"2011-06-12T20:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=806"},"modified":"2011-06-12T20:45:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:45:47","slug":"my-portrait-in-2070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"my portrait in 2070"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/06\/my-portrait-in-2070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-807\" title=\"my portrait in 2070\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/06\/my-portrait-in-2070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/my-portrait-in-2070.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/my-portrait-in-2070-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/my-portrait-in-2070-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and sixty-three: <\/strong>I know this sketch is morbid, but a conversation with some friends this evening reminded me of an etching that the Belgian avant-garde artist James Ensor made in 1888 called &#8220;My Portrait in 1960.&#8221; In it, he imagined himself at the age of 100 as a skeleton. My sketch does the same, but with a twist. I look into a mirror in 2011 and see my future self as a skeleton. Ensor&#8217;s art is often, though not always, creepy or rude (or both). I&#8217;m not sure what message, if any, Ensor was trying to relay 123 years ago, but today may I suggest the timeless proverb carpe diem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and sixty-three: I know this sketch is morbid, but a conversation with some friends this evening reminded me of an etching that the Belgian avant-garde artist James Ensor made in 1888 called &#8220;My Portrait in 1960.&#8221; In it, he imagined himself at the age of 100 as a skeleton. My sketch does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[28,12,47,45,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}