{"id":123,"date":"2019-05-17T19:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thethingsyouremember.co.uk\/?p=123"},"modified":"2019-05-17T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:52:19","slug":"art-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/art-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Art teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember my art teacher at school was called Mr Dick, much to our childish amusement. He encouraged me in my art though and I remember very well copying Hieronymus Bosch&#8217;s Garden of Earthly Delights when I was 12, much to his approval.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 17 and went to art college I was in awe of one of my teachers. We could smoke in class back then, the height of bohemianism I thought and this teacher could make a roll up one handed, with his hand behind his back. It was a sight to behold.<\/p>\n<p>He was however a grumpy and often miserable tutor, &#8216;cynical of anything his students did&#8217;. We were a little art college in Harrogate and he was teaching annoying seventeen year olds graphic design.<\/p>\n<p>One day I found out why he always seemed bored shitless. He was the man that designed the famous The Who logo. Whether that made him eligible to be\u00a0 a good art teacher I don&#8217;t know but at least it probably explained the excellent way he could build an almost spliff without looking.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsyouremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2014-The-Who-Logo-295x300.png?resize=295%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember my art teacher at school was called Mr Dick, much to our childish amusement. He encouraged me in my art though and I remember very well copying Hieronymus Bosch&#8217;s Garden of Earthly Delights when I was 12, much to his approval. When I was 17 and went to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,44,84],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-remember-as-a-teen","tag-art-college","tag-harrogate","tag-the-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}