{"id":1055,"date":"2003-08-07T21:52:54","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T05:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2005-08-27T22:05:17","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T06:05:17","slug":"to-paint-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"to paint the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.braniffpages.com\/calder\/calder.html\">Alexander Calder and Braniff Airways<\/a> &#8212; a page about Calder&#8217;s airplane paintings. Here&#8217;s something I find odd: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Four Models were painted, but before two of the models could be finished, Alexander Calder died in 1976.  Out of respect to the artist, a scheme was never applied to any Braniff aircraft, only models shown above. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> If I were the artist, I sure wouldn&#8217;t want my work wasted just because I died; that gives Death an unnecessary extra victory.<\/p>\n<p>I heard once that Congress considered a ban on the use of film showing stunts in which a performer died &#8212; and representatives of the stuntmen&#8217;s union opposed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Calder and Braniff Airways &#8212; a page about Calder&#8217;s airplane paintings. Here&#8217;s something I find odd: Four Models were painted, but before two of the models could be finished, Alexander Calder died in 1976. Out of respect to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1055\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}