{"id":9075,"date":"2018-01-26T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=9075"},"modified":"2018-06-01T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:26:45","slug":"steve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/steve-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Steve
I met Steve Ashby in 1972 doing a project for Chuck Perdue’s folklore class.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ashby's
Steve lived here, in Delaplane Virginia.
“Steve Ashby lived his entire life in a small town in Virginia, an unincorporated community roughly fifty miles west of Washington, DC. The son of an emancipated slave, he was the second of twelve children. Outside of a brief stint as a restaurant waiter, Ashby spent most of his life working the soil as a farmer and gardener until he retired in 1950. Although he had tinkered with small-scale wooden sculptures throughout his life, it was only after the death of his wife in 1960 that he started to experiment with figural sculptures.–National Gallery of Art<\/a>“<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Steve told me he’d dream things at night, wake up and carve them in the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Ashby
I don’t remember seeing a TV in Steve’s house, but somewhere he must have run into Donny and Marie Osmond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Chuck Perdue let me make scrapbooks.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolls","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9513,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}