{"id":102,"date":"2009-01-28T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=102"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:28:13","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"in the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cistern_web.jpg\" alt=\"Basilica Cistern,Istanbul\" class=\"wp-image-333\" width=\"347\" height=\"260\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it was new year 2009. rosie and i ran through the bus tunnel in the middle of the night, my velvet coat floating around me, thrilled to be reborn into hataitai in the pre-dawn of the new year. and it was to be a most auspicious year. i wrote an eloquent post to launch my blog, but now it&#8217;s gone along with so many other words, things, people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we celebrated granny&#8217;s 100th birthday, i traversed the globe again, played with the winds and fell off my bike in denmark and knew that i needed to stay on this side of the world for a while. with suzon and james, i had an artistic residency at the villa waldberta in germany, and met andy. in istanbul while torrential rain fell, stopping trains and planes and drowning people, i learned of granny&#8217;s death on the other side of the world; i sat and talked about her with jale in the basilica cistern. in exeter with paula we hatched a plan for a new performance and in new york i dragged andy to as many strange avant garde performances as possible. it didn&#8217;t scare her away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i returned to new zealand ready to leave again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it was new year 2009. rosie and i ran through the bus tunnel in the middle of the night, my velvet coat floating around me,<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/in-the-beginning\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyberformance","category-festival","category-life","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}