{"id":8969,"date":"2023-02-27T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2023-02-27T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:26:24","slug":"bamboozled-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8969","title":{"rendered":"Bamboozled Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> Carl Sagan Quote<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we&#8217;ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We&#8217;re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It&#8217;s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we&#8217;ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The last line is Carl Sagan\u2019s name in code.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Bamboozle_IMG_0376.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboozle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Bamboozle_IMG_0378.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboozle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Code Used<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/BamboozleCode_IMG_0382.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboozle Code\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Materials\u2013paper, tree wrap, fiber, wood, canvas, paint, PVA.<br \/>\n14.5&#8243; x 12.75&#8243; x .75&#8243;<\/p>\n<p>I made the frame for a different piece. When it came time to assemble, the frame wasn\u2019t quite right. Nice that it found a new home.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Sagan Quote One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we&#8217;ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We&#8217;re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It&#8217;s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we&#8217;ve been taken. Once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8969\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bamboozled Piece<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,24,15,27,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-code","category-fiber","category-materials","category-needlework","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8969\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}