{"id":5642,"date":"2015-02-23T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2015-02-23T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:45:35","slug":"more-attention-for-a-worthy-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/02\/more-attention-for-a-worthy-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"More attention for a worthy artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5643\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-5643 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/goodvoicecrow.jpg\" alt=\"Crow\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John Warner<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A detail of &#8220;Good Voiced-Crow,&#8221; Ben Pease&#8217;s painting of a member of the Oglala Indian Police.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this since Friday, when the Billings Gazette featured Ben Pease in <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/entertainment\/arts-and-theatre\/visual\/yam-auction-showcases-established-and-emerging-artists\/article_70e1e72a-1c06-5510-96b6-69839034f96a.html\">a story<\/a> about the Yellowstone Art Museum&#8217;s annual auction.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to draw readers&#8217; attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2014\/01\/523\/\">a story I wrote about Ben<\/a> in the earliest days of Last Best News. We had a lot fewer readers then,\u00a0naturally, so\u00a0I wanted to give current readers a chance to catch up. I also wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2014\/01\/backstory-folk-festival-find\/\">a short blog item<\/a> about how I stumbled onto Ben&#8217;s great work at the Montana Folk Festival in Butte and just knew I had to write a story about him.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, the story contains some fine John Warner photographs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this since Friday, when the Billings Gazette featured Ben Pease in a story about the Yellowstone Art Museum&#8217;s annual auction. I wanted to draw readers&#8217; attention to a story I wrote about Ben in the earliest days of Last Best News. We had a lot fewer readers then,\u00a0naturally, so\u00a0I wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[74,81,407],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ben-pease","tag-montana-folk-festival","tag-yellowstone-art-museum","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}