{"id":609,"date":"2020-07-23T21:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=609"},"modified":"2020-07-23T21:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:01:04","slug":"art-us-postal-service-stamps-honor-ruth-asawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/07\/23\/art-us-postal-service-stamps-honor-ruth-asawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Art: US Postal Service Stamps Honor Ruth Asawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruthasawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stamp-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>10 gorgeous images of Ruth Asawa&#8217;s sculptures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am completely delighted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/ruthasawa.com\/usps-announces-2020-ruth-asawa-stamp\/\">US Postal Service is issuing stamps featuring sculptures by California artist Ruth Asawa<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We claim Asawa here: she created numerous sculptures we have, including the famous mermaid sculpture at Ghiradelli Square, the charming children&#8217;s clay figure sculpture near Union Square (now adjacent to the Apple Store), and a remarkable collection of woven wire structures that are included in the collection of our deYoung Museum; we&#8217;ve named a school after her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s wonderful to see her work shared with others nationally in this highly democratic way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am completely delighted that the US Postal Service is issuing stamps featuring sculptures by California artist Ruth Asawa. We claim Asawa here: she created numerous sculptures we have, including the famous mermaid sculpture at Ghiradelli Square, the charming children&#8217;s clay figure sculpture near Union Square (now adjacent to the Apple Store), and a remarkable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/07\/23\/art-us-postal-service-stamps-honor-ruth-asawa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art: US Postal Service Stamps Honor Ruth Asawa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}