{"id":1690,"date":"2006-11-02T00:31:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T08:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/11\/02\/all-art\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:26","slug":"all-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/11\/02\/all-art\/","title":{"rendered":"All Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All art is quite useless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Oscar Wilde<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe so. But <em>creating<\/em> art is <em>not<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What is &#8220;usefulness&#8221; anyway? As I sit pondering, the more I say the word the weirder it sounds, and the meaning starts to warp. Sort of like seeing a word spelled the proper way but staring so long that it starts to look wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All art is quite useless. &#8211;Oscar Wilde Maybe so. But creating art is not. What is &#8220;usefulness&#8221; anyway? As I sit pondering, the more I say the word the weirder it sounds, and the meaning starts to warp. Sort of like seeing a word spelled the proper way but staring so long that it starts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12228,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/12228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}