{"id":2067,"date":"2009-05-06T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2010-08-02T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T00:55:00","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-string-art-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-string-art-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; String Art Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2071\" title=\"yarn-owl_81281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_81281.jpg\" alt=\"yarn-owl_81281\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_81281.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_81281-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<p>In the 1970&#8217;s, more owls lived on wood paneled walls than in trees. The owl is clearly the National Bird in the state of Kitsch as flocks of them thrive in burnt metal, ceramic and the all important Hi Art of Kitsch, String Paintings. This one is especially fancy, incorporating mohair yarn as feathers and a driftwood perch.<\/p>\n<p>String art kits are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimathprojects.com\/GeometricStringDesigns.htm\">still available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an especially <a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~johnmcboston\/stringart.html\">slap happy string art guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2075\" title=\"yarn-owl_8132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_8132.jpg\" alt=\"yarn-owl_8132\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_8132.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_8132-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2077\" title=\"yarn-owl_8130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_8130.jpg\" alt=\"yarn-owl_8130\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_8130.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/yarn-owl_8130-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970&#8217;s, more owls lived on wood paneled walls than in trees. The owl is clearly the National Bird in the state of Kitsch as flocks of them thrive in burnt metal, ceramic and the all important Hi Art of Kitsch, String Paintings. This one is especially fancy, incorporating mohair yarn as feathers and &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-string-art-owl\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,19,207,273,239,87,193,263,201],"tags":[61,3232,3245,275,257],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-art","category-bad-art","category-birds","category-crafts","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-nature","category-painting","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-string-art","tag-thrift-shop-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}