{"id":198,"date":"2017-02-05T05:48:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T05:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2017-02-05T05:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T05:54:17","slug":"a-visual-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/2017\/02\/05\/a-visual-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_199\" style=\"width: 1306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-1024x741.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-200x145.jpg 200w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-450x326.jpg 450w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-600x434.jpg 600w, https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shahnemeh213a-900x651.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages from Shahnameh &#8211; The Book of Kings\u00a0&#8211; written by Ferdowsi in Farsi in the 8th c. This manuscript was written in nasta&#8217;liq during the Timourid Rule in the 15th c.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am using this as a visual inspiration. The epic poem <em>The Book of Kings<\/em>, as the name indicates, is all about kings, myths and legends and, with a few exceptions, all the characters are men. But Grounding is about a real woman in real life. The scale, the subject matter and the voice all dislodge the associations we make immediately with this style of writing, and create a sense of alienation where critical response can grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am using this as a visual inspiration. The epic poem The Book of Kings, as the name indicates, is all about kings, myths and legends and, with a few exceptions, all the characters are men. But Grounding is about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/2017\/02\/05\/a-visual-reference\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}