{"id":472,"date":"2007-11-06T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:24","slug":"truth-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/11\/truth-seeker\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth Seeker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='float: left; margin-right: 10px'><a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/cheever_final.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/cheever_final.html','popup','width=400,height=807,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"cheever_final_300.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/cheever_final_300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"569\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The story for <a href='http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6497101.html?industryid=48383' target='new'>this month&#8217;s Soapbox in Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/a> was a pretty fascinating one. Ben Cheever (son of <a target='new' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cheever'>John Cheever<\/a>) writes about two seemingly unrelated topics: running and seeking the truth. Yet they come together in a most interesting way in his life.<br \/>\nHaving just written a book about running (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FStrides-Running-Through-History-Unlikely%2Fdp%2F1594862281%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1194404654%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=jonkeeganillu-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Strides<\/a>&#8220;), Cheever talks about how in his family of runners, running together lead to moments of surprising honesty because &#8220;the brain doesn&#8217;t get enough oxygen to support a falsehood&#8221;.<br \/>\nI was struck by the mention of his family&#8217;s deepest secret, his father&#8217;s bisexuality (thus the closet imagery) which lead to the idea for the illustration.<br \/>\nYou can see more of <a href='http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/client_list.php?th=2&#038;client=Publishers+Weekly' target='new'>my work for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly here<\/a>.<br clear='all'><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story for this month&#8217;s Soapbox in Publisher&#8217;s Weekly was a pretty fascinating one. Ben Cheever (son of John Cheever) writes about two seemingly unrelated topics: running and seeking the truth. Yet they come together in a most interesting way in his life. Having just written a book about running (&#8220;Strides&#8220;), Cheever talks about how [&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":[157,244,155,175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}