{"id":17044,"date":"2022-11-05T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=17044"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T18:39:51","slug":"as-good-as-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=17044","title":{"rendered":"As Good as Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For an artist or a craftsman gold is a risky material in which to seek eternal fame. Gold is not just an artists medium it is also a store of wealth and during hard times it tends to get melted down<\/strong> no matter how beautifully it is sculpted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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A surviving piece of the Hapsburg gold in Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are seeking eternal fame, stone is a better medium. It has very little value outside the sculpture and is more durable than paintings. However a good idea like the steam engine or a phrase like “The apple of my eye.” are likely to outlast them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For an artist or a craftsman gold is a risky material in which to seek eternal fame. Gold is not just an artists medium it is also a store of wealth and during hard times it tends to get melted down no matter how beautifully it is sculpted. A surviving piece of the Hapsburg gold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1179,1178],"class_list":["post-17044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","tag-gold","tag-vienna"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4qU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17046,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044\/revisions\/17046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}