{"id":2,"date":"2006-08-12T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-16T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:06:09","slug":"who-this-is","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/who-this-is\/","title":{"rendered":"who this is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born-n-bred in St. Louis, Missouri, Nick Normal pursued his undergraduate degree overseas at Central St. Martin&#8217;s College of Art &amp; Design (London, UK) where he graduated with &#8216;honours&#8217; in Fine Arts. With a firm approach to working with whatever he can get his hands and mind on, Nick enjoys making scale models, maquettes and installations and buying dollar-store items to integrate into his surroundings &#8211; that is, both his life and his work. He is also a lifelong biblioholic, which has recently turned into assembling an &#8216;expansive library&#8217; of cardboard books. Nick is also building an archive of press releases, postcards, flyers, brochures, etc. related to art exhibitions &#8211; in progress now since November 2003, it is estimated at 11,000 individual items and spans a plethora of three-ring binders and milk-crates (an archive of archives).<\/p>\n<p><!--word_stats;about;--><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born-n-bred in St. Louis, Missouri, Nick Normal pursued his undergraduate degree overseas at Central St. Martin&#8217;s College of Art &amp; Design (London, UK) where he graduated with &#8216;honours&#8217; in Fine Arts. With a firm approach to working with whatever he can get his hands and mind on, Nick enjoys making scale models, maquettes and installations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6OfVu-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}