{"id":138,"date":"2009-05-10T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-05-10T13:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:41:33","slug":"all_citizens_must_wear_clown_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/05\/all_citizens_must_wear_clown_s\/","title":{"rendered":"All Citizens Must Wear Clown Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clown.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/clown.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"219\" width=\"200\" \/><\/span>I love those moments when life reminds you to stop taking yourself so damn seriously. I find myself needing the direct tackle on this point quite a bit lately, and Baltimore (where this photo was shot) is a good place to be for that. Strolling down a city sidewalk past John Waters, as we did right after snapping this pic, also seems to help in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, further in the pursuit of keeping perspective and reducing myopic stress this summer, we put in our vegetable garden this weekend (my real-world, hands-in-dirt stab at creativity) and contemplated the installation of a backyard hammock. And that leads pretty quickly to thoughts of summer reading (which leads even faster to afternoon naps, but let&#8217;s leave that be for a moment.)<\/p>\n<p>For anyone interested in exercising their library cards and reading along, blogger book club will be back next month, and so far on this season&#8217;s reading list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invisible-Dragon-Essays-Revised-Expanded\/dp\/0226333183\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1241974316&amp;sr=1-1\"><i>The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded<\/i><\/a> by Dave Hickey and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Whuffie-Factor-Social-Networks-Business\/dp\/0307409503\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1241973936&amp;sr=1-1\"><i>The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business<\/i><\/a> by Tara Hunt. <\/p>\n<p>What books are you schlepping to the beach this summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love those moments when life reminds you to stop taking yourself so damn seriously. I find myself needing the direct tackle on this point quite a bit lately, and Baltimore (where this photo was shot) is a good place to be for that. Strolling down a city sidewalk past John Waters, as we did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}