{"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&#39;s Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"PW_jk_bookseller_500.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/PW_jk_bookseller_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nA pretty simple Illo for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly. A writer (Pete Croatto) working at a bookstore tells how he found peace in the simple job of selling books:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I\u2019ve been snapped at, lectured to and dismissed, all of which could happen in an hour&#8221;. <\/em><br \/>\nEven after being threatened with violence, and talked down to, he found helping readers rewarding.<br \/>\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.<br \/>\nYou can see more of my work for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly <a target='new' href='http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/client_list.php?th=2&#038;client=Publishers+Weekly'>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty simple Illo for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly. A writer (Pete Croatto) working at a bookstore tells how he found peace in the simple job of selling books: &#8220;I\u2019ve been snapped at, lectured to and dismissed, all of which could happen in an hour&#8221;. Even after being threatened with violence, and talked down to, he found [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}