{"id":1547,"date":"2018-08-08T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T01:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucepringle.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T03:31:19","slug":"im-working-a-new-medium-into-my-work-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m working a new medium into my work.. CONCRETE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting to add volume and envious of ceramic but wary of the fragility, I have turned to concrete&#8230; The Ancient Egyptians\u00a0 and the Romans used it and combined with metal (ie Fero-cement), It is proving to be just what I&#8217;m looking for.<\/p>\n<p>The concept behind these pieces, (not the horned beast, though), is around the idea that after the Big Bang.. the elements, up to iron (Fe 26) were the first to seed the universe and with Iron and Calcium (Ca 20) being so plentiful on earth&#8230; and Iron being Blood (Hemoglobin,\u00a0<b>Hgb<\/b>, is the <a href=\"x-dictionary:r:'Iron?lang=en&amp;signature=com.apple.DictionaryApp.Wikipedia'\"><span class=\"s2\">iron<\/span><\/a>-containing <a href=\"x-dictionary:r:'Oxygen?lang=en&amp;signature=com.apple.DictionaryApp.Wikipedia'\"><span class=\"s2\">oxygen<\/span><\/a>-transport <a href=\"x-dictionary:r:'Metalloprotein?lang=en&amp;signature=com.apple.DictionaryApp.Wikipedia'\"><span class=\"s2\">metalloprotein<\/span><\/a> in the <a href=\"x-dictionary:r:'Red_blood_cell?lang=en&amp;signature=com.apple.DictionaryApp.Wikipedia'\"><span class=\"s2\">red blood cells<\/span><\/a> of all <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"x-dictionary:r:'Vertebrate?lang=en&amp;signature=com.apple.DictionaryApp.Wikipedia'\">vertebrates<\/a>) and Calcium being bone&#8230; 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The concept behind these pieces, (not the horned beast, though), is around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucepringle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}