{"id":91967,"date":"2020-06-01T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=91967"},"modified":"2020-05-28T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T12:34:35","slug":"daily-dose-of-good-news-check-out-a-topiary-version-of-a-seurat-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/daily-dose-of-good-news-check-out-a-topiary-version-of-a-seurat-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily&#8217; Dose of Good News &#8211; Check Out a Topiary Version of a Seurat Painting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Did you know that Georges Seurat\u2019s 1884 pointing, \u201cA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,\u201d has been translated into topiaries on 9 acres in downtown Columbus?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/entertainment\/20200524\/topiary-garden-downtown-is-open-to-visitors-who-need-art-fix\">Columbus Dispatch article<\/a>, the painting &#8220;takes form in life-size \u2014 and sometimes bigger-than-life \u2014 topiaries&#8221; in the Old Deaf School Park, 480 E. Town St., located behind the Columbus Metropolitan Library\u2019s Main Library. The Topiary Garden is open sunup to sundown.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to the article, the Topiary Garden was created by sculptor James Mason and his then-wife, Elaine Mason, an arts administrator, who began work in 1989. It\u00a0remains the world\u2019s only topiary representation of a painting.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this unique Columbus attraction!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Office of University Communication<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Georges Seurat\u2019s 1884 pointing, \u201cA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,\u201d has been translated into topiaries on 9 acres in downtown Columbus? According to a recent Columbus Dispatch article, the painting &#8220;takes form in life-size \u2014 and sometimes bigger-than-life \u2014 topiaries&#8221; in the Old Deaf School Park, 480 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91968,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967\/revisions\/91968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}