{"id":160,"date":"2005-11-30T16:41:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T16:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:23:00","slug":"baghdad-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2005\/11\/baghdad-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/magazine\/features\/baghdadjournal.asp\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/magazine\/features\/baghdadjournal.asp','popup'); return false\"target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"kon_mumford.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/kon_mumford.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMany of you may already be aware of Steve Mumford. Lately he has been getting a TON of press, both on <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/PersonOfWeek\/story?id=339980&#038;page=1\" target=\"new\">TV<\/a> and in print.  Until this week I&#8217;d never heard of him.<br \/>\nAs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/magazine\/articles\/2005\/10\/30\/moving_pictures\/\" target=\"new\">Boston Globe<\/a> reported:<br \/>\n&#8220;During 2003 and 2004, Mumford traveled on his own to occupied Iraq four times to chronicle military and civilian life. He made hundreds of sketches and kept a journal; entries were posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/magazine\/features\/baghdadjournal.asp\" target=\"new\">Artnet.com<\/a>, an online magazine. Now his writings and paintings have been collected in a book, Baghdad Journal, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/\" target=\"new\">Drawn and Quarterly<\/a> publishers.&#8221;<br \/>\nI am VERY impressed. The skill Mr. Mumford displays across a diversity of mediums and scale of imagery is staggering. I long to see his work in person. Until then I&#8217;d happily settle for getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-1896597904-1\" target=\"new\">&#8220;Baghdad Journal : An Artist in Occupied Iraq&#8221;<\/a> for Christmas. Anyone feeling generous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you may already be aware of Steve Mumford. Lately he has been getting a TON of press, both on TV and in print. Until this week I&#8217;d never heard of him. As the Boston Globe reported: &#8220;During 2003 and 2004, Mumford traveled on his own to occupied Iraq four times to chronicle military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}