{"id":4471,"date":"2011-03-02T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-110-modern-art-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"Day 110 &#8211; Modern Art (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/029-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This bit of modern art was brought home from school today by Ida (age 7). I mistook it for trash. Call me heartless, but I wanted to throw it before it became a fixture in the boys&#8217; bedroom. Ida protested, &#8220;It took me a long time to paint those toothpicks!&#8221; I had not noticed they WERE painted. But they are.We came to a deal. Ida would allow me to throw his &#8216;art&#8217; away if I agreed to take a picture of it first. It&#8217;s another win\/win situation because now it&#8217;s physically gone from our house, but a much wider audience (including folks in Slovenia, the Philippines, and Denmark) gets to enjoy Ida&#8217;s masterpiece!This is what the internet was MADE FOR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bit of modern art was brought home from school today by Ida (age 7). I mistook it for trash. Call me heartless, but I wanted to throw it before it became a fixture in the boys&#8217; bedroom. Ida protested, &#8220;It took me a long time to paint those toothpicks!&#8221; I had not noticed they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}