{"id":764,"date":"2017-04-11T20:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=764"},"modified":"2017-04-11T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:49:47","slug":"gray-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/gray-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I think of playing as a little kid, one of the first things that comes to mind is color. Children love to color at restaurants, draw with chalk on the sidewalk, look at colorful books. The lack of color in Julia Jacquette&#8217;s <em>Playground of My Mind<\/em> is a little surprising. The cover of the book has hints of color and the fist page includes a bright blue jacket, but all color then disappears until the last few pages. I wonder why Jacquette decided to use color so sparingly. The lack of color also stands out from her other pieces of artwork on display at the Wellin which use bold colors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/julia-jacquette-images-slide-963X-superJumbo-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-765 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/julia-jacquette-images-slide-963X-superJumbo-v2-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/julia-jacquette-images-slide-963X-superJumbo-v2-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/julia-jacquette-images-slide-963X-superJumbo-v2-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/julia-jacquette-images-slide-963X-superJumbo-v2-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/julia-jacquette-images-slide-963X-superJumbo-v2.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The colorless pages kind of remind me of a coloring book. Perhaps this is what she was going for. Or maybe she wanted the reader\/viewer to have to &#8220;play&#8221; and use his or her imagination to fill in the missing details. Although this book is a memoir, Jacquette allows the reader to add a personal touch by not including every\u00a0feature. Do people think the book is more effective being mostly black and white?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of playing as a little kid, one of the first things that comes to mind is color. Children love to color at restaurants, draw with chalk on the sidewalk, look at colorful books. The lack of color in Julia Jacquette&#8217;s Playground of My Mind is a little surprising. The cover of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/gray-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gray Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}