{"id":3872,"date":"2010-10-16T16:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T23:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2010-10-16T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T23:56:58","slug":"comparative-advantage-made-tangible-100-million-hand-painted-ceramic-sunflower-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/10\/16\/comparative-advantage-made-tangible-100-million-hand-painted-ceramic-sunflower-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative advantage made tangible: 100 million hand-painted ceramic sunflower seeds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sunflower02.jpg\" alt=\"ai weiwei sunflower seeds tate modern\" title=\"sunflower02\" width=\"400\" height=\"527\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3873\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/10\/view\/11836\/ai-weiwei-sunflower-seeds-at-the-tate-modern.html\">Ai Weiwei<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2010\/oct\/17\/ai-weiwei-seeds-canaletto-rivals-review\">Tate Modern<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It turns out that each seed is in fact a unique porcelain replica, hand-painted in Jingdezhen and fired at 1,300 degrees. Some 1,600 artisans worked for two years to make 100 million husks with a combined weight of 150 tonnes: a mass project, its collective spirit now abroad in London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparative_advantage\">Comparative advantage<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist Ai Weiwei at Tate Modern: It turns out that each seed is in fact a unique porcelain replica, hand-painted in Jingdezhen and fired at 1,300 degrees. Some 1,600 artisans worked for two years to make 100 million husks with a combined weight of 150 tonnes: a mass project, its collective spirit now abroad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}