{"id":2577,"date":"2021-03-20T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/venu4445.local\/?p=40"},"modified":"2023-02-02T04:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:22:22","slug":"from-the-plate-to-the-canvas-jacques-pepin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/from-the-plate-to-the-canvas-jacques-pepin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques P\u00e9pin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2577\" class=\"elementor elementor-2577\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-92831e4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"92831e4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-490a1956\" data-id=\"490a1956\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7978abd elementor-author-box--name-yes elementor-author-box--link-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-author-box\" data-id=\"7978abd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"author-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/author\/lisa-mikulski\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-author-box__name\">Lisa Mikulski<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-286a1aa8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"286a1aa8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The creation of P\u00e9pin\u2019s illustrated menus are what he feels connects his art to his cooking. The chef reflects back upon his career, and in the gatherings he has had for family and friends, and can trace these menus back through his 54 years of marriage. &#8220;I have twelve books of menus. I have memories from my mother and my two brothers. These books of menus are really my whole life.\u201d<\/p><p>Creativity resides in us all \u2013\u2013 an ebb and flow of ideas and visions that come to us through inspiration or insight. The trick is in knowing creativity. In recognizing it, befriending it, and then in doing the work to bring an idea to fruition.<\/p><p>Jacques P\u00e9pin\u2019s creativity and expertise in the kitchen is internationally renowned. But it\u2019s rare that creativity only visits one skill in those who embrace it. Many of us have followed P\u00e9pin over the course of his career. We might also have noticed the menus he\u2019s created or the cookbooks he published with illustrations and paintings of flowers, herbs, vegetables, and charming barnyard animals. His artwork spans the representational to the abstract and it seems P\u00e9pin is not only creative with a dish but also on a canvas.<\/p><p>P\u00e9pin has been painting sporadically for a half a century and he sees similarities in cooking and painting. He speaks elegantly, insightfully, and knowledgeably about both.<\/p><p>Cooking and painting both require a certain amount of preparedness.<\/p><p>\u201cWhen working in a professional kitchen, you don\u2019t necessarily measure the ingredients. You\u2019re there, testing. You taste, adjust, taste, and adjust and then you find it\u2019s somehow three hours later. You get on a high and don\u2019t realize the time has passed,\u201d said P\u00e9pin. \u201cSimilarly, I can get into a painting and all of a sudden it\u2019s three hours later.<\/p><p>\u201cYou don\u2019t think about it. Things become automatic. You shouldn\u2019t have to look for an onion. It has to be there, ready to be added. Likewise with painting, when I want to add indigo blue or cadmium yellow, I don\u2019t go and look for the tube and open it and so forth. It has to be there.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI have much more control over food than I do over painting because I know more about food and am technically trained much better in food than in painting. When I do a dish and start building, it starts usually because perhaps it\u2019s lovely weather and I go out and see a beautiful artichoke or tomato \u2013\u2013 and that will start the recipe. Here I have total freedom.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIn the painting process, it is similar. I start with an idea also, maybe I saw something somewhere. But in painting I can sometimes end up with something entirely different from when I started,\u201d chuckles P\u00e9pin.<\/p><p>Many artists will talk about being in \u201cthe zone\u201d \u2013\u2013 that coveted place where all things come together, and one forgets time and space.<\/p><p>For ten years P\u00e9pin wrote for the New York Times. He tells me that when faced with a blank page it can be quite frustrating and it\u2019s sometimes difficult to begin. A new blank canvas can bring great inspiration, but also intimation. However, once you get started the thing takes on a life of its own and carries the artist along with it.<\/p><p>P\u00e9pin finds inspiration in a variety of subjects. It can be something he\u2019s seen at a museum, a tree outside, or on a walk with his dog. He attributes his mood to a majority of his paintings. Flowers also inspire him, and he finds the subject provides a great deal of freedom which can lead the artist to a representational work or to something quite abstract. He does not feel that he has any particular style and he\u2019s not quite sure he wants to develop one. And yet, in looking at his oeuvre, one can see hints of France.<\/p><p>\u201cIf I go to a museum, I might be influenced by a line from Matisse. Or a Picasso. I find him [Picasso] extraordinary because of the diversity of his work \u2013\u2013 from the blue period to the abstract. I don\u2019t think I have a style. I don\u2019t really stay in one style and I don\u2019t really want to, and I can\u2019t really.\u201d<\/p><p>When looking at a piece of fine art from perhaps the 18th or 19th century, P\u00e9pin tells me that he admires the precision and the character in those works but he knows he lacks the trained skillset of a professional artist.<\/p><p>\u201cI am a cook,\u201d he says.<\/p><p>But still, art lovers can agree that sometimes we may view something that is technically perfect in execution and yet it lacks heart. It lacks emotion and fails to move us. P\u00e9pin\u2019s art has heart.<\/p><p>\u201cI think, like in cooking, I\u2019m trying to get the essential out of a painting. When I was younger, I would keep adding to a dish, and adding, and now that I am older, I find I need less embellishment. When I have a perfect tomato I don\u2019t want a lot of embellishment and with painting also, I try to get what I feel is the essential.\u201d<\/p><p>Herein lies the uniqueness of an artist\u2019s work. The interpretation of the individual. Having taught at Boston University for 38 years, he instructs the young chefs to learn, study, and adjust, but that ultimately they should find their own way.<\/p><p>\u201cAt BU, I used to do something called \u2018the perfect meal\u2019. I would ask the students to get some ingredients and then I would do something out of that \u2013\u2013 maybe it was just a roasted chicken, a boiled potato, and a salad. The students would then have to duplicate that meal, but I\u2019d say to them \u2018I know you want to blow my mind and do something totally different. But don\u2019t. Don\u2019t.\u2019<\/p><p>\u201cI know I have twelve students there and I know I will have twelve different chickens. I\u2019ll have two chickens that are overcooked, two that are undercooked, two cold, two too hot, but they will be all different.\u201d<\/p><p>Those same young chefs will go out into the world and work in different restaurants under different chefs. They will learn and absorb a vast amount of knowledge, and just like artists, just like you standing in your kitchen or at your easel, the end product will be different and uniquely your own.<\/p><p>\u201cYou cannot escape yourself,\u201d said P\u00e9pin. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to torture yourself to be different because you already are different. But if you can make a living out of something you love to do \u2026 Well, that is the secret to life.\u201d<\/p><p>The creation of P\u00e9pin\u2019s illustrated menus are what he feels connects his art to his cooking. The chef reflects back upon his career and in the gatherings he has had for family and friends. He can trace these menus back through his 54 years of marriage and can show his daughter, who is now 52 years old, what was served on her third birthday by pulling out the menu he created and illustrated. Not only is it a memory of the intellect but a memory of the senses \u2013\u2013 taste memory \u2013\u2013 which P\u00e9pin considers much more powerful.<\/p><p><strong><em>Menus: A Book for Your Meals and Memories<\/em><\/strong>, contains approximately 80 of his menus with illustrations. And leaves room for you to create your own menu memories.<\/p><p>\u201cThis is the binding of my artwork and my cooking. I write the menu down and record the memory but there is some artistic value there as well. When we would have people coming to the house they might write down a funny thing as a remembrance. If we had a good bottle of wine we would glue the wine label in there. I have twelve books of menus. I have memories from my mother and my two brothers. These books of menus are really my whole life.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know whether my painting has helped my cuisine, or whether my cooking has helped my painting, and I don\u2019t know if one borrows from the other. All I know is that, certainly for me, cooking and painting can live in harmony together. Both are different expressions of who I am and both enhance my life considerably.\u201d<\/p><p>You can learn more about Jacques P\u00e9pin\u2019s art at jacquespepinart.com where many of his drawings, original art works, and prints are for sale. <strong><em>Menus: A Book for Your Meals and Memories<\/em><\/strong> is available at your favorite book seller.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ebeedeb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"ebeedeb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-75ea8bb\" data-id=\"75ea8bb\" 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data-height=\"2000\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">Meat, Duck, Scallop, Fruit, menu, 2016, book three<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Menu-22-11X14-acrylic-marker-and-pen-on-paper-1.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-8b1f484\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"menu; acrylic; marker; pen; paper; flowers; vase; 2013,book three\" 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three<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Les-Legumes-24X18-acrylic-on-canvas-1.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-8b1f484\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Les Legumes 24X18 acrylic on canvas\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6OTg3MCwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3ZlbnVtYWdhemluZS5jb21cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjFcLzAzXC9MZXMtTGVndW1lcy0yNFgxOC1hY3J5bGljLW9uLWNhbnZhcy0xLmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6ImFsbC04YjFmNDg0In0%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Les-Legumes-24X18-acrylic-on-canvas-1.jpg\" data-width=\"2000\" data-height=\"1491\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">Les Legumes 24X18 acrylic on canvas<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">vegetable; blue; green; acrylic; canvas; painting,2007,Book Five,representational,still life<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/King-of-the-Coop-12X16-Acrylic-on-paper-1.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-8b1f484\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"King of the Coop 12X16 Acrylic on paper\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6OTg2OSwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3ZlbnVtYWdhemluZS5jb21cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjFcLzAzXC9LaW5nLW9mLXRoZS1Db29wLTEyWDE2LUFjcnlsaWMtb24tcGFwZXItMS5qcGciLCJzbGlkZXNob3ciOiJhbGwtOGIxZjQ4NCJ9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/King-of-the-Coop-12X16-Acrylic-on-paper-1.jpg\" data-width=\"1511\" data-height=\"2000\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">King of the Coop 12X16 Acrylic on paper<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">chicken,cock,livestock,acrylic, paper,painting, animal, animal prints, yellow, 2018, book four<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jean-Michelle-Dining-Room-Window-16x24-acrylic-on-canvas-0005-1.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-8b1f484\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Jean Michelle Dining Room Window, 16x24, acrylic on canvas 0005\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6OTg2OCwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3ZlbnVtYWdhemluZS5jb21cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjFcLzAzXC9KZWFuLU1pY2hlbGxlLURpbmluZy1Sb29tLVdpbmRvdy0xNngyNC1hY3J5bGljLW9uLWNhbnZhcy0wMDA1LTEuanBnIiwic2xpZGVzaG93IjoiYWxsLThiMWY0ODQifQ%3D%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jean-Michelle-Dining-Room-Window-16x24-acrylic-on-canvas-0005-1.jpg\" data-width=\"1557\" data-height=\"2000\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">Jean Michelle Dining Room Window, 16x24, acrylic on canvas 0005<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">window; red; 2007; acrylic; canvas; painting, Book Five, representational, still life, by Jaques P\u00e9pin<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JACQUES-Y8A6631-1.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-8b1f484\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Jacques P\u00e9pin\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6OTg2NywidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3ZlbnVtYWdhemluZS5jb21cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjFcLzAzXC9KQUNRVUVTLVk4QTY2MzEtMS5qcGciLCJzbGlkZXNob3ciOiJhbGwtOGIxZjQ4NCJ9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JACQUES-Y8A6631-1.jpg\" data-width=\"1333\" data-height=\"2000\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">Jacques P\u00e9pin<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">Jacques 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class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">Jacques P\u00e9pin<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">Jacques P\u00e9pin painting<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fruit-Erruption-30x24-acrylic-on-canvas-0058-2.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-8b1f484\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"fruit canvas; 2016; painting, book five, representational, by Jacques P\u00e9pin\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6OTg2NSwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3ZlbnVtYWdhemluZS5jb21cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjFcLzAzXC9GcnVpdC1FcnJ1cHRpb24tMzB4MjQtYWNyeWxpYy1vbi1jYW52YXMtMDA1OC0yLmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6ImFsbC04YjFmNDg0In0%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fruit-Erruption-30x24-acrylic-on-canvas-0058-2.jpg\" data-width=\"2000\" data-height=\"1608\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">fruit canvas; 2016; painting, book five, representational, by Jacques P\u00e9pin<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">fruit canvas; 2016; painting, book five, representational, by Jacques P\u00e9pin<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of P\u00e9pin\u2019s illustrated menus are what he feels connects his art to his cooking. The chef reflects back upon his career, and in the gatherings he has had for family and friends, and can trace these menus back through his 54 years of marriage. &#8220;I have twelve books of menus. I have memories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29685,"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/29685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}