{"id":2816,"date":"2016-02-05T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T01:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2016-02-05T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T01:26:05","slug":"happiness-as-an-art-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2016\/02\/05\/happiness-as-an-art-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Happiness&#8221; as an art prompt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick a song you\u2019ve been listening to a lot lately and listen to it again (for me, that song is Happiness by Elliott Smith).<\/p>\n<p>Write\/paint\/sculpt\/make art while it plays, using the song as a prompt.<\/p>\n<p>Song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Happiness - Single Version\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4oyFmkXLdhrAKjSZqZrrwS?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Flash fictiony thing I wrote in response:<\/p>\n<p>I see him walking up the callous mountain, and I feel a little small. He is wearing Keds, with holes where the sole should join the fabric. His toes poke out. The wind ruffles his hair; I think I see him smiling at the sun rising above the Rockies. Behind me, the house is quiet and drained \u2013 Andy and Shane sleep on couch, top-to-tail, in matching t-shirts that say &#8216;I Heart Xanax&#8217;, in the &#8216;I Heart NY&#8217; style. Shane&#8217;s arm is sprawled across the makeshift table (wooden log underneath, piece of cardboard as the top), with a burnt out Parliament between his fingers, leaning towards the ashtray, like a sunflower towards the sun. I sit in a swinging chair on the porch, cradling a cup of Earl Grey like a premature child. The world in front of me is unfolding slowly, calmly \u2013 sun peaks out over the mountains; its streaks get in my eyes like loose strands of hair. Behind me, the people sleep through the aftermath of unhealthy decisions, sleep away the glaze, just sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick a song you\u2019ve been listening to a lot lately and listen to it again (for me, that song is Happiness by Elliott Smith). Write\/paint\/sculpt\/make art while it plays, using the song as a prompt. Song: Flash fictiony thing I wrote in response: I see him walking up the callous mountain, and I feel a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\"Happiness\" as an art prompt.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-Jq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}