{"id":475,"date":"2015-02-25T00:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T08:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/?p=475"},"modified":"2016-06-08T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:48:50","slug":"1989-the-big-drop-november-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"1989: &#8216;The Big Drop&#8217;- November-December?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bigd2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-525\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bigd2.jpg\" alt=\"bigd2\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bigd2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/painting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bigd2-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe fuelled by the absurdity of the &#8216;Illustration&#8217; experience in London the first thing I did back in my parent&#8217;s house in Didcot, Oxfordshire was rattle off these large and quite bonkers images of the futility of art in the local landscape&#8230;&#8230;which to be fair pretty bloody accurate. Cameron is a local MP.<\/p>\n<p>Crash, burn and laugh&#8230;&#8230;I have no idea what I was doing&#8230;30 years old..living with my parents and drawing this stuff. My parents must have had the patience of saints.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway whatever they are&#8230;..I kept them and eventually two were included in a drawing exhibition at my institution&#8230;moved to the corridor mind because they weren&#8217;t considered good enough to be in main room with the real art which I shall not describe&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- index.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview\n\t ngg-ajax-pagination-none\t\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-d32a90ac48aab37569b8613020f5505e-1\">\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t<a 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