{"id":35980,"date":"2025-03-13T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35980"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:08:52","slug":"banksi-wei-wei-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35980","title":{"rendered":"Banksi, Wei Wei and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35970\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35986\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My reach exceeds my grasp. My principle short term goal is to get a Substack started. It would sort of be a rival to this old blog of mine whose visiter stats I haven&#8217;t checked since my computer crashed over the summer. I&#8217;d have to spend ten minutes finding the link but can&#8217;t imagine it shows many visitors so why bother to look? Substack does that automatically and I&#8217;m up to 9 visits&#8230;..This is where in Facebook I would put an eyeroll emoji. Since then I let my Facebook page, pages, get hacked and have lost that as a place to waste my time. <\/p>\n<p>Last night I slept well although I woke at 3AM and needed to chase thoughts out of my head. I did the NY Times Wordle and read the news. One fellow I&#8217;ve followed intermittently, who left China a decade ago rather than become a prisoner of conscience, Ai Wei Wei was profiled in the Times. In the story he says he doesn&#8217;t consider himself an artist. I wonder if Banksy, who like Ai Wei Wei focuses his art on the evils of the world, would agree. I went to sleep and dreamt about Wei Wei in a vivid dream. On waking Wei Wei, Banksy filled my head while I made coffee. I do not consider myself an artist either but like them I put my talents to work making statements in snow about the world we live in. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside the Former \u2018Underworld\u2019 Where Ai Weiwei Makes Art<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/t-magazine\/ai-weiwei-retrospective-seattle-art-museum.html?smid=nytcore-android-share\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/t-magazine\/ai-weiwei-retrospective-seattle-art-museum.html?smid=nytcore-android-share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post My reach exceeds my grasp. My principle short term goal is to get a Substack started. It would sort of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35980"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35992,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions\/35992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}