{"id":1385,"date":"2011-01-26T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2011-02-15T12:57:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:57:21","slug":"i-always-wanted-to-be-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"I always wanted to be cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1386\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1386\" title=\"Artist Amy Guidry with her paintings at Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX\" src=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/9162-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Amy Guidry with her paintings at Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/9162-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/9162.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Amy Guidry with her paintings at Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know anybody growing up who didn&#8217;t wish they were in the &#8220;cool&#8221; crowd.  Well, unless you already <em>were<\/em> in the cool crowd&#8230;  So, better late than never, I think I finally reached &#8220;cool&#8221; status since I&#8217;m now featured on Vegans Are Cool.  The name implies you&#8217;re cool, so I&#8217;m going with it.  Silliness aside, I&#8217;m honored to be one of the featured interviews and to represent those vegans in the creative field.  And it&#8217;s nice to get into some more personal aspects of my work since those opportunities don&#8217;t happen if your work is on a gallery wall and there&#8217;s no one around to explain it.  So for a little more insight into my world- art, veganism, etc.- check out my interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegansarecool.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.vegansarecool.com<\/a> (also under the category- vegan creatives).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know anybody growing up who didn&#8217;t wish they were in the &#8220;cool&#8221; crowd. Well, unless you already were in the cool crowd&#8230; So, better late than never, I think I finally reached &#8220;cool&#8221; status since I&#8217;m now featured on Vegans Are Cool. The name implies you&#8217;re cool, so I&#8217;m going with it. Silliness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/?p=1385\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I always wanted to be cool<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[145,1025,1023,34,330,5,55,164,331],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-rights","tag-vegansarecool","tag-amy-guidry","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-surreal","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistcommentary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}