{"id":4881,"date":"2013-11-04T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2013-11-04T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T09:35:02","slug":"grayson-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4881","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Manchester Heena also took me to see Grayson Perry&#8217;s The Vanity of Small Differences exhibition:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestergalleries.org\/whats-on\/exhibitions\/index.php?itemID=109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/the_adoration_of_the_cage_fighters.jpg\" alt=\"The adoration of the cage fighters\" width=\"409\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/the_adoration_of_the_cage_fighters.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/the_adoration_of_the_cage_fighters-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and I absolutely loved it.  I watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/in-the-best-possible-taste-grayson-perry\/4od\">C4 programmes about it<\/a> afterwards.  I think it was better to do it that way round i.e. to see the tapestries without any preconceptions whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>I then searched for what else Grayson Perry has done and discovered that he gave the Reith lectures this year.  I&#8217;ve heard the first three out of four and they&#8217;ve been brilliant: witty, thought-provoking and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b03969vt\/The_Reith_Lectures_Grayson_Perry_Playing_to_the_Gallery_2013_Democracy_Has_Bad_Taste\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Grayson-Perry.jpeg\" alt=\"Grayson Perry\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4883\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Manchester Heena also took me to see Grayson Perry&#8217;s The Vanity of Small Differences exhibition: and I absolutely loved it. I watched the C4 programmes about it afterwards. I think it was better to do it that way round i.e. to see the tapestries without any preconceptions whatsoever. I then searched for what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}