{"id":10561,"date":"2012-07-02T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2012-07-02T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:17:08","slug":"bodies-of-inscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/bodies-of-inscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of Inscription&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"584\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10562\" title=\"7-Pen-Ink-Mac-McClelland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-Pen-Ink-Mac-McClelland.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"734\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10563\" title=\"3-Pen-Ink-Caroline-Paul\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-Pen-Ink-Caroline-Paul.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"682\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10564\" title=\"4-Pen-Ink-Chris-Colin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-Pen-Ink-Chris-Colin.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/penandink.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pen &amp; Ink <\/a><\/strong>was created by Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton as a place for those with body art to share the stories behind it. It features each person\u2019s name and occupation, a fun sketch of each tattoo diagramming where it is on the body, and, of course, the reasoning for it. Leo, one of the tattooists quoted in Margo DeMello\u2019s <em>Bodies of Inscription<\/em> asserts:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>[A] genuine tattoo\u2026. tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don\u2019t tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they\u2019re just there for decoration, then they\u2019re not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they\u2019re not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there\u2019s no mistakes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Pen &amp; Ink was created by Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton as a place for those with body art to share the stories behind it. It features each person\u2019s name and occupation, a fun sketch of each tattoo diagramming where it is on the body, and, of course, the reasoning for it. Leo, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,9,14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}