{"id":632,"date":"2008-11-05T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:15:46","slug":"grounds-for-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Grounds for sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/leucantha.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265014687696662002\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/leucantha-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Art, especially contemporary art, is not really my thing. It&#8217;s not ever felt accessible to me. It puzzles me, mostly, or makes me laugh sometimes, but I&#8217;ve always felt that I&#8217;m somehow missing the point.<\/p>\n<p>Save for a few pleasant experiences in Spain, sculpture displayed in stuffy museums or galleries doesn&#8217;t interest me. Set that artwork against a backdrop of autumn&#8217;s finest colors and well&#8230; I&#8217;m there!<\/p>\n<p>I took advantage of the day off, <em>overpaid government employee that I am<\/em>, and, after doing my civic duty, visited the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundsforsculpture.org\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Grounds For Sculpture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> in Hamilton. It was a perfect day for a stroll through the grounds to enjoy what is also a fine garden and arboretum. The fall colors were gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some favorite views:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SREW1q3eqwI\/AAAAAAAAC7I\/4s5Y86e0SNU\/s800-h\/unknownyellowface.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265014550668684034\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/unknownyellowface-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This made me smile!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SREWp80ippI\/AAAAAAAAC7A\/7qTk_CG6idc\/s800-h\/octobergathering.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265014349329770130\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/octobergathering-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>October Gathering<\/em> by Joan Danziger&#8230; I really liked this one, though the scale was tiny compared to many of the others.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SREWiA95zdI\/AAAAAAAAC64\/ElpC89dkAO8\/s800-h\/unknowngazebo-like.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265014213003824594\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/unknowngazebo-like-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Gorgeous colors in the background here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SREWatLJLtI\/AAAAAAAAC6w\/aq9-cLcGEUk\/s800-h\/poppies.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265014087431565010\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poppies-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>On Poppied Hill<\/em> by Seward Johnson<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SREWS9x_usI\/AAAAAAAAC6o\/LpundU6eVB4\/s800-h\/lintel.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265013954450537154\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/lintel-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>Lintel<\/em> by Emilie Benes Brzezinski <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">More pics to come&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art, especially contemporary art, is not really my thing. It&#8217;s not ever felt accessible to me. It puzzles me, mostly, or makes me laugh sometimes, but I&#8217;ve always felt that I&#8217;m somehow missing the point. Save for a few pleasant experiences in Spain, sculpture displayed in stuffy museums or galleries doesn&#8217;t interest me. Set that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grounds for sculpture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}