{"id":8500,"date":"2019-03-09T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:25:16","slug":"have-razor-will-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=8500","title":{"rendered":"Have razor, will paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8501\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/van-gogh-e1551212980667-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/van-gogh-e1551212980667-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/van-gogh-e1551212980667-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/>One would think only action painters would be honored as action figures. When you fail to get that Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Genius Award recedes beyond the horizon and MoMA looks less and less likely to put you into its permanent collection, take heart, as always, from Van Gogh&#8217;s non-existent career. Even if all else fails, a century from now they might make an action figure of you, only by then it will be fully animatronic and equipped with AI to keep painting in your style, perhaps even better than you do now. At last, action figures will live up to their toy category.<\/p>\n<p>From the back of the package. Wait for it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Full Name: Vincent Willem van Gogh<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Occupation: Painter<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Weapon of Choice: Straight Razor<\/p>\n<p>I like how he comes with two heads, the one before and the one after he used that razor to turn his ear into a Valentine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think only action painters would be honored as action figures. When you fail to get that Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Genius Award recedes beyond the horizon and MoMA looks less and less likely to put you into its permanent collection, take heart, as always, from Van Gogh&#8217;s non-existent career. Even if all else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Have razor, will paint - represent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=8500\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have razor, will paint - represent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One would think only action painters would be honored as action figures. 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