{"id":47,"date":"2010-03-20T04:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T04:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2010-03-20T15:33:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T15:33:46","slug":"the-broken-spoke-by-edward-gorey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-03\/the-broken-spoke-by-edward-gorey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Spoke by Edward Gorey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bicycle-Worship1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46    aligncenter\" title=\"Bicycle Worship\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bicycle-Worship1-266x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bicycle-Worship1-266x400.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bicycle-Worship1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bicycle-Worship1-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bicycle-Worship1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our library is a luminous treasure trove, and is perhaps my favorite habitat in our fine town.\u00a0 While meandering through the stacks looking for how-to-draw books, I discovered illustrator\/author Edward Gorey and two of his books:\u00a0\u00a0 <em>The Broken Spoke <\/em>(1976) and <em>Amphigorey<\/em> (1972).\u00a0\u00a0 The books are filled with beguiling and bizarre drawings and comics (alternatingly whimsical and tenebrous), all obviously drawn under the influence of a keen mind and\/or the prevalent psychedelics of that era.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The <em>Broken Spoke <\/em>is an homage to all things cycle-delic.\u00a0\u00a0 And given my addiction to all things cycling,<em> The Broken Spoke <\/em>immediately spoke to me.\u00a0\u00a0 Gorey&#8217;s drawing entitled <em>Bicycle Worship in the Tediola Archipelago <\/em>is typical of Gorey&#8217;s Two Wheels Good collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our library is a luminous treasure trove, and is perhaps my favorite habitat in our fine town.\u00a0 While meandering through the stacks looking for how-to-draw books, I discovered illustrator\/author Edward Gorey and two of his books:\u00a0\u00a0 The Broken Spoke (1976) and Amphigorey (1972).\u00a0\u00a0 The books are filled with beguiling and bizarre drawings and comics (alternatingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}