{"id":1310,"date":"2007-04-07T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2014-03-09T03:58:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T07:58:33","slug":"redefining-beautiful-then-enlarging-the-garbage-dumps-of-america-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1310\/redefining-beautiful-then-enlarging-the-garbage-dumps-of-america-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Beautiful (then enlarging the garbage dumps of America with it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked this up at a second hand book shop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/449919476\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/242\/449919476_71f1cfc9e1.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Redefiing Beautiful\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The designer of these &#8220;7 Stunning Pieces made from 7-Count Plastic Canvas and Embellishments&#8221; was Diane T. Ray.    The back cover says that <em>Indian Artifacts<\/em> &#8220;reflects her unique ability to adapt objects of art to the medium of plastic canvas&#8221;.  Living in New Mexico, inspired by its vistas, she also enjoyed riding customized sand rails over the dunes with her husband and boys.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, she enjoyed destroying the desert environment with sand buggies.  How appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we have here bell chimes, a canteen, a pitcher, wedding basket, wall hanging&#8230;and no home display of plastic canvas Indian artifacts is complete without the tomahawk and pipe.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere out there are individuals who thought &#8220;that wedding basket would look so cute holding plastic flowers on the tank of the bathroom toilet!&#8221; and made at least one of these bizarre creations in their passionate pursuit of creating trash for American landfills.   If it happened to be a sweet but clueless relation of yours, I can understand how you&#8217;d be sentimental.  The idea remains, however, reeeeeeally bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked this up at a second hand book shop. The designer of these &#8220;7 Stunning Pieces made from 7-Count Plastic Canvas and Embellishments&#8221; was Diane T. Ray. The back cover says that Indian Artifacts &#8220;reflects her unique ability to adapt objects of art to the medium of plastic canvas&#8221;. Living in New Mexico, inspired by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}