{"id":778,"date":"2004-11-26T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2004-11-26T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2004-11-26T00:00:11","slug":"christo_and_jea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Christo and Jean-Claude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christo and Jean-Claude are planning to bring saffron to Central Park next February according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/23\/arts\/design\/23chri.html?ex=1259125200&#038;en=e9d7fd2c6b5e1f66&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt\">Carol Vogel<\/a>.  Reading this reminded me of their work in Paris from 1975 to 1985.   A fresh UW grad, I was in Europe for an extended stay when I came upon Christo and Jean-Claude&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christojeanneclaude.net\/pn.html\">The Pont Neuf Wrapped<\/a>.  I snapped these photos in 1985:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn1a.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn2a.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn3a.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/112004\/pn85\/pn4a.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p> I commend and admire <a href=\"http:\/\/christojeanneclaude.net\">their work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christo and Jean-Claude are planning to bring saffron to Central Park next February according to Carol Vogel. Reading this reminded me of their work in Paris from 1975 to 1985. A fresh UW grad, I was in Europe for an extended stay when I came upon Christo and Jean-Claude&#8217;s The Pont Neuf Wrapped. I snapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}