{"id":533,"date":"2018-02-21T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T03:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2018-02-21T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T03:44:39","slug":"welcome-to-the-playbox-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/welcome-to-the-playbox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Playbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I\u2019d like to welcome you to a place where<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> nothing\u2019s too weird or nonsensical, too sad or misshapen.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> It <em>all<\/em> lives in and under The Playbox.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inside The Playbox you\u2019ll find an array of works that express the bulk of my story, beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\">Pondering Pool<\/a> \u2013 writings, drawings, sculptures, and videos that speak about such things as a love so deep, being a Band-Aid, compassion, neuroses, you had me at ha, and so much more. What doesn\u2019t fit inside lovingly resides beneath, where it needn\u2019t worry about smiling or taking care of anyone else, it can simply rest.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s taken me a while to be ready to talk about the delicate, sticky areas, but dammit, the poignant stuff can be very connective and healing, and dare say, funny.\u00a0 On that note, I hope these works will not only be amusing and meaningful to you, but will inspire you to create, fill, and share your own Playbox.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/interview\/\">Click here to watch my video interview.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to welcome you to a place where nothing\u2019s too weird or nonsensical, too sad or misshapen. It all lives in and under The Playbox. &nbsp; Inside The Playbox you\u2019ll find an array of works that express the bulk of my story, beyond Pondering Pool \u2013 writings, drawings, sculptures, and videos that speak about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/welcome-to-the-playbox-2\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}