{"id":24039,"date":"2019-05-29T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=24039"},"modified":"2024-08-16T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:28:41","slug":"something-hopperesque-about-this-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2019\/05\/29\/something-hopperesque-about-this-bathroom.html","title":{"rendered":"Something Hopperesque About This Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Hopper had painted something like this he would likely have included a person sitting on the john, reading a newspaper or, more likely, looking toward the window, even though its frosted glass offers no meaningful view to the outside. Hopper, ever unsympathetic toward his subjects, would have found a way to diminish the person’s dignity further than he would by simply depicting them in what most consider a moment not worth sharing. I lightened this up a little bit to articulate the tiles on the wall, and to highlight the mold on the tiles closest to the toilet. I also thought the natural state of the torn off toilet paper gave the transient flourish that characterizes a shared facility like this.<\/p>\n

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Hopperesque Bathroom<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Hopper had painted something like this he would likely have included a person sitting on the john, reading a newspaper or, more likely, looking toward the window, even though its frosted glass offers no meaningful view to the outside. Hopper, ever unsympathetic toward his subjects, would have found a way to diminish the person’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/woodside-library-shitter-20190128_144408_001.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-6fJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24041,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24039\/revisions\/24041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}