{"id":915,"date":"2015-01-02T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:29:10","slug":"pinto-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Pinto Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/S2700010-2-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Nostalgia Painting Larry Johnston\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/S2700010-2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/S2700010-2-1024x701.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Pinto Motel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While exhibiting at an Arts Festival, at the Shrimp Festival, in Gulf Shores, Alabama, I was approached by a young couple that was interested in several paintings to be commissioned. \u00a0He had seen my work before and brought a photo with him. \u00a0At this point I did not know that the several paintings would be <strong>four<\/strong> of the same picture.<\/p>\n<p>I was handed a black and white photo of the Pinto Motel. \u00a0It looked like it had been vacant for many years. \u00a0You know, it was the kind of photograph\u00a0with the rippled edges, from before I was born. It seems, that their ancestors\u00a0owned a motel somewhere in the southwest.\u00a0The owner had passed away many years ago. It was one of the 4 grandchildren that wanted me to paint four paintings, in color, so he could keep one and give the other three as presents to his three siblings. \u00a0All four of the paintings were 9&#8243; x 12&#8243;. \u00a0I bet it was a treasured gift, since the motel was\u00a0probably gone by then.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pinto Motel While exhibiting at an Arts Festival, at the Shrimp Festival, in Gulf Shores, Alabama, I was approached by a young couple that was interested in several paintings to be commissioned. \u00a0He had seen my work before and brought a photo with him. \u00a0At this point I did not know that the several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,349],"tags":[431,870,598,597,596],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-x-12","category-new-mexico","tag-commissioned-painting","tag-larry-johnston-nostalgia","tag-new-mexico","tag-pinto-horse","tag-pinto-motel","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}