{"id":509,"date":"2009-05-03T19:19:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T02:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/the_art_of_showing_up\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T19:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T02:19:25","slug":"the_art_of_showing_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/the_art_of_showing_up.html","title":{"rendered":"The fine art of showing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I was supposed to have lunch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruceconkle.com\/index.htm\">Bruce Conkle<\/a> and never showed up. I not only intended to be there, I was looking forward to it, never having said more to Conkle than &#8220;hello&#8221; and &#8220;admire your work. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>What I planned to do, besides eat, was listen. Conkle represents a fascinating edge of Northwest landscape art, known in Portland as eco-absurd. He&#8217;s an oddball blend of fairy tales and facts on file, and his work is more celebration than dirge.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/bruceconklestump-5887.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/bruceconklestump-5887.html','popup','width=452,height=517,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/bruceconklestump-thumb-350x400-5887.jpg\" alt=\"bruceconklestump.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"350\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Back to the lunch that never was: Somehow it showed up on my electronic calendar as a date for the eight, not the first.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of this missed date, bought a calendar that I&#8217;ll be carrying in purse or pocket. The right date was on Conkle&#8217;s email. By double checking both electronic and paper, I might have a better chance of being in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies to Mr. Conkle.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I was supposed to have lunch with Bruce Conkle and never showed up. I not only intended to be there, I was looking forward to it, never having said more to Conkle than &#8220;hello&#8221; and &#8220;admire your work. &#8220; What I planned to do, besides eat, was listen. Conkle represents a fascinating edge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}