{"id":3656,"date":"2014-05-23T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2014-05-23T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:34:49","slug":"some-people-never-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/some-people-never-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people never change"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some people never change. OK, I never change. <\/span><\/div>\n
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I remember one particularly heated conversation about art. I was 19 and preparing for my first trip to New York city. My companion, a musician, and I were walking along a Midwestern city street gesticulating to one another, carried away by the force of our ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I explained that my highest goal was to paint the truth of someone doing something simple, like walking along the street. I told him I couldn’t imagine anything more beautiful, more mysterious, or more fascinating.<\/div>\n
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I still feel exactly that way!<\/em><\/div>\n
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I am still guided by that same feeling; still riveted by the same mystery.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, as I was heatedly gesticulating, I walked directly into a lamppost and nearly knocked myself out. It might sound like a prank but I assure you it was not.<\/div>\n
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My companion was gracious enough not to show any pleasure at my pratfall. I can’t remember much of what he said but he predicted he would join me in New York soon. And he did. I watched him play his own songs at Gerdes Folk City<\/a> (of blessed memory) the following year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people never change. OK, I never change. I remember one particularly heated conversation about art. I was 19 and preparing for my first trip to New York city. My companion, a musician, and I were walking along a Midwestern city street gesticulating to one another, carried away by the force of our ideas. 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