{"id":465,"date":"2010-01-28T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2022-07-19T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T01:14:07","slug":"its-an-oldenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s an Oldenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Oldenburg-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"990\" class=\"wp-image-9338\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Oldenburg-1024x990.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Oldenburg-1024x990.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Oldenburg-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Oldenburg-768x742.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Oldenburg-1536x1485.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Oldenburg-2048x1980.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today is the birthday of Claes Oldenburg (born 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden), whose sculptures depicting soft versions of normally solid objects (like bathtubs and violins) and gigantic versions of small household objects (like lipstick and ice cream cones) have been critically successful as well as extremely popular and are installed in public spaces around the world. Some, like his giant clothespin and typewriter eraser, have also with the passage of time become mementos of a dimly remembered disappearing technology. His works elevate the pedestrian to the extraordinary and are lots of fun besides. Here\u2019s wishing him a great big slice of birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CakeStars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5341\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeStars\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/CakeStars.png\" alt=\"CakeStars\" width=\"125\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>Alexander<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Today is the birthday of Claes Oldenburg (born 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden), whose sculptures depicting soft versions of normally solid objects (like bathtubs and violins) and gigantic versions of small household objects (like lipstick and ice cream cones) have been critically successful as well as extremely popular and are installed in public<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=465\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,22,66,17,3,51],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-birthday","tag-comix","tag-history","tag-penink","tag-watercolor","tag-words"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9343,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/9343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}