{"id":8269,"date":"2008-07-27T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T22:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8269"},"modified":"2017-09-15T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:57:27","slug":"man-on-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8269","title":{"rendered":"<i>Man on Wire<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"110606-philippe-petit.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/110606-philippe-petit.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehousenextdooronline.com\/2008\/07\/strange-duality-conversation-with.html\">Lauren Wissot gets a wonderful interview<\/a> from documentary filmmaker James Marsh and Philippe Petit (the highwire artist subject of <i>Man On Wire<\/i>) &#8211; One brief excerpt from the interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Philippe Petit<\/strong>:  Everything I do I feel is completely honest, completely felt, completely generous and sincere. At the same time I have to seduce, I have to steal, I have to lie, I have to convince, I have to acquire things, I have to force, I have to impose. This is what an artist should do regardless of the rules, if he has a pure heart and wants to do something beautiful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Wissot gets a wonderful interview from documentary filmmaker James Marsh and Philippe Petit (the highwire artist subject of Man On Wire) &#8211; One brief excerpt from the interview: Philippe Petit: Everything I do I feel is completely honest, completely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}