{"id":569,"date":"2010-03-27T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-09-06T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T01:18:15","slug":"new-work-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/2010\/03\/new-work-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"New Work: &#8220;Pride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_163\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-163\" title=\"Pride\" src=\"http:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Pride-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Pride&quot;  Oil  30&quot;x24&quot;  2010\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Pride&quot; Oil 30&quot;x24&quot; 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m looking at an old photo. It&#8217;s 1936 and \u00a0NYC Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, with a hand on the shoulder of Joe DiMaggio and the other on \u00a0Lou Gehrig,\u00a0is beaming as he welcomes\u00a0the\u00a0rookie. DiMaggio would exceed the expectations of everyone and certainly be worth\u00a0his $25,000 starting salary.<\/div>\n<div>The Yankees are the team that I had grown up with. Through the years they&#8217;ve had\u00a0a legion of\u00a0impressive players and personal favorites.\u00a0Joltin&#8217; Joe DiMaggio represented many things to me. In my painting I have taken a few liberties in portraying a magical moment at Yankee Stadium. The focus is on DiMaggio just after he connects. Everything seems frozen as the skies, which form the Yankee logo, await\u00a0his\u00a0home run.\u00a0It&#8217;s a beautiful day and the stands are bathed in sunlight. Atop the stadium facade, the flags gently\u00a0wave. \u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking at an old photo. It&#8217;s 1936 and \u00a0NYC Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, with a hand on the shoulder of Joe DiMaggio and the other on \u00a0Lou Gehrig,\u00a0is beaming as he welcomes\u00a0the\u00a0rookie. DiMaggio would exceed the expectations of everyone and certainly be worth\u00a0his $25,000 starting salary. The Yankees are the team that I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirianniart.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}