{"id":27474,"date":"2013-02-22T22:46:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/edward-goreys-nativity\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T22:46:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:46:55","slug":"edward-goreys-nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/edward-goreys-nativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Gorey&#8217;s nativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/gorey%20Donald%20imagined%20things.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gorey Donald imagined things.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/02\/gorey Donald imagined things-thumb-285x250-13781.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"250\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardgorey.com\">Edward Gorey<\/a> would have been 88 today had he lived; Gorey died in 2000.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Born in Chicago and lived on Cape Cod having lived at times in NYC, Gorey&#8217;s imagination is wild and very humorous if you can recognize his line of thinking. As with artists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/mystery\/gorey.html\">he&#8217;s got a complex<\/a> view of life and personal history.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Edward Gorey is a Harvard educated,&nbsp;self-taught artist of the&nbsp;<i>Gashleycrumb Tines<\/i> and <i><a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Doubtful-Guest-Edward-Gorey\/dp\/0747541558%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0747541558\" title=\"The Doubtful Guest\" rel=\"amazon\" target=\"_blank\">The Doubtful Guest<\/a><\/i> among other works.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gorey is one who makes me laugh and think. And from the first time meeting his work by way of a Jesuit friend of mine, Gorey has provided me a chance to think outside the box with his mysterious, macabre and merry sense of humor. Thanks to my friend Camille for reminding of the birthday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=b55f6a0b-3885-4abb-9e16-8bee259cbc99\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Gorey would have been 88 today had he lived; Gorey died in 2000. Born in Chicago and lived on Cape Cod having lived at times in NYC, Gorey&#8217;s imagination is wild and very humorous if you can recognize his line of thinking. As with artists he&#8217;s got a complex view of life and personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/edward-goreys-nativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edward Gorey&#8217;s nativity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1778,3105,2289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}