{"id":13,"date":"2019-12-05T05:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T10:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anastasia.hamwebs.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2020-07-14T01:49:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T05:49:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As an artist, I often find it difficult to explain my paintings. From my earliest childhood, I have been influenced by the advice of my artist grandfather, who told me, \u201cif you really have something important to say, draw it rather than putting it into words. Words will disappear anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I were asked to describe my art in one sentence, I would use the words of Gabrielle Garcia Marquez \u2013 \u201cthe world was so new that many things had no names and you had to point your finger at them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Anastasia R. Simes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anastasia Rurikov Simes is a painter, a costume and set designer for theater and a jewelry designer. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally and her work is held in several public and private collections.<\/p>\n<p>Russian-born, Simes lives near Washington, DC\u2014where her theater design is regularly seen  in the productions of the Synetic Theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rurikov-simes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}