{"id":2892,"date":"2011-03-15T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:52:40","slug":"portrait-night-315-john-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2892","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 3\/15 (John Irving)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Twitter #PortraitNight subject is a suggestion from<a title=\"Tim O'Shea\" href=\"http:\/\/robot6.comicbookresources.com\/tag\/talking-comics-with-tim\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Tim O&#8217;Shea of Comic Book Resources<\/a>. After two disastrous attempts at his other suggestion, Peter Gabriel, I wound up switching gears and attempting a likeness of author John Irving. This was a quick drawing that took maybe twenty minutes in my sketchbook and I think turned out surprisingly&#8230;. OK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving_dr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2893\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2893\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving_dr.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,950\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"irving_dr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving_dr-236x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving_dr.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2893\" title=\"irving_dr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving_dr-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving_dr-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving_dr.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2894\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2894\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,502\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"irving\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving-239x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2894\" title=\"irving\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/irving.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #portraitnight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my<a title=\"Ben Towle - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Twitter #PortraitNight subject is a suggestion from Tim O&#8217;Shea of Comic Book Resources. After two disastrous attempts at his other suggestion, Peter Gabriel, I wound up switching gears and attempting a likeness of author John Irving. This was a quick drawing that took maybe twenty minutes in my sketchbook and I think turned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2892\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-KE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}