{"id":100,"date":"2015-03-06T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/?p=100"},"modified":"2019-03-05T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:28:39","slug":"underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/2015\/03\/underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-url=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/hthorpe\/docs\/tubepoem\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 187px;\" class=\"issuuembed\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Artist&#8217;s statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While I was abroad in London, my tube stop \u2014 yes, <em>my<\/em> tube stop, it\u2019s a very personal thing \u2014 had weekly poetry written on a whiteboard outside the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Normally this was a space reserved for updates about maintenance and delays, but our local crew saw it more fit as an artistic venue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_424\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Thorpe_Artiststatement_image.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-424\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-424 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Thorpe_Artiststatement_image-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Tube poem&quot;\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Thorpe_Artiststatement_image-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Thorpe_Artiststatement_image.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Tube poem&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I appreciated this.<\/p>\n<p>This poem is the poem I would have had displayed on that fabulous little whiteboard if I\u2019d had the chance. It is about the tube. I found the tube equal parts frustrating and mystifying, thrilling and disturbing. It made me cringe and it made me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, (and I think for all of these reasons, good and bad) I remember it quite fondly and hope to return to it again. I hope to make you feel a little bit of all of these things as well so that we might share this strange emotional dissonance created by cramped spaces and wonderfully human experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s statement: While I was abroad in London, my tube stop \u2014 yes, my tube stop, it\u2019s a very personal thing \u2014 had weekly poetry written on a whiteboard outside the stairs. Normally this was a space reserved for updates about maintenance and delays, but our local crew saw it more fit as an artistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[12,19,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}