{"id":4959,"date":"2013-11-26T21:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T09:48:14","slug":"grayson-perry-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4959","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Perry, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Grayson-Perry-Portrait-Artist-Young\/dp\/0099485168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Grayson-Perry-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Grayson Perry\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Grayson-Perry-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Grayson-Perry.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a very easy read, split into lots of short chapters and so easy to dip into whenever you have five minutes.  GP seems to have crammed a lot into his younger life and it&#8217;s interesting to see how his experiences and thoughts have manifested themselves in his art.  But I have to say I didn&#8217;t recognise some of the things he did with his friends as art; it seemed like a bunch of exhibitionists dressing up (or not) and indulging themselves in the name of being creative.<\/p>\n<p>This biography will be enjoyed by those who are interested in Grayson Perry but it left me feeling a little flat.  His recent Reith lectures are much more vibrant and entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very easy read, split into lots of short chapters and so easy to dip into whenever you have five minutes. GP seems to have crammed a lot into his younger life and it&#8217;s interesting to see how his experiences and thoughts have manifested themselves in his art. But I have to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}