{"id":284,"date":"2009-04-12T19:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T03:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:20:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T03:20:57","slug":"decastro-painting-awarded-and-featured-for-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2009\/04\/decastro-painting-awarded-and-featured-for-911\/","title":{"rendered":"deCastro Painting Awarded and Featured for 911"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">de Castro&#8217;s, <em>Statue of Liberty, New York<\/em>, Awarded &amp; Featured for 9\/11. \u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Bj.&#8217;s oil painting<small><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art\/statue_of_liberty_new_york.html\"><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Statue of Liberty, New York<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">, is awarded the <em><strong>Medal of Honor<\/strong><\/em> &amp; featured in tribute to the tragedy of Sept. 11th in New York and on the Twin Towers.\u00c2\u00a0 *On a personal note by the artist, &#8220;Of all the honors and awards that my art has garnered me, this is one that I hold with great personal pride.\u00c2\u00a0 My visit to New York was, actually, many years prior to the events on 9-11.\u00c2\u00a0 However, the initial compositional phase of this painting, started <em>just before<\/em> the awful tragedy.\u00c2\u00a0 My heart was so full of tears&#8230;I could not work on it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was set aside and not completed, until 2003.\u00c2\u00a0 Never in my work, has my passion morphed into something-so powerful, that I doubted my ability to finish the piece.\u00c2\u00a0 This piece started out as an expression of a special place that I had traveled to-and ended, as a representation of all that Lady Liberty stands for.\u00c2\u00a0 I am humbled to have met her.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Please view the beautiful <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/bjdecastro-published\/medal-of-honor-911.html\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">tribute and award.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>de Castro&#8217;s, Statue of Liberty, New York, Awarded &amp; Featured for 9\/11. \u00c2\u00a0 Bj.&#8217;s oil painting, Statue of Liberty, New York, is awarded the Medal of Honor &amp; featured in tribute to the tragedy of Sept. 11th in New York and on the Twin Towers.\u00c2\u00a0 *On a personal note by the artist, &#8220;Of all the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2009\/04\/decastro-painting-awarded-and-featured-for-911\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bjdecastro-artist-awards-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}