{"id":434,"date":"2007-08-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=434"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:25","slug":"a-booksellers-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/08\/a-booksellers-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bookseller's Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA pretty simple Illo for Publisher’s Weekly. A writer (Pete Croatto) working at a bookstore tells how he found peace in the simple job of selling books:
\n“I\u2019ve been snapped at, lectured to and dismissed, all of which could happen in an hour”. <\/em>
\nEven after being threatened with violence, and talked down to, he found helping readers rewarding.
\nI am doing more opaque color on my digital paintings now. I used to give color a much more watercolor type treatment, but I am feeling nostalgic for the satisfying opacity of oils. Time to go back into the lab with my neglected copy of Painter and see what develops.
\nYou can see more of my work for Publisher’s Weekly here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pretty simple Illo for Publisher’s Weekly. A writer (Pete Croatto) working at a bookstore tells how he found peace in the simple job of selling books: “I\u2019ve been snapped at, lectured to and dismissed, all of which could happen in an hour”. Even after being threatened with violence, and talked down to, he found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}