{"id":81,"date":"2010-12-13T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T05:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/?p=81"},"modified":"2021-01-12T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:02:11","slug":"an-alternative-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/an-alternative-christmas","title":{"rendered":"An Alternative Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to create a retro Christmas card for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayhills.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midway Hills Christian Church<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/alternativechristmasmarket.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alternative Christmas Program<\/a>. This church, which was founded in 1955, had a progressive artistic aesthetic \u00a0through the 1960&#8217;s into the 1970&#8217;s. Evidence of this psychedelic art influence is still evidenced in their awe inspiring banner art, stained glass and wooden carvings. It is truly a mod sanctuary. I wanted to channel that groovy vibe to make them a card that was as groovy as they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mhcc-alt-xmas-2010-card-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-82\" title=\"mhcc alt xmas 2010 card front\" src=\"http:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mhcc-alt-xmas-2010-card-front-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to create a retro Christmas card for Midway Hills Christian Church&#8216;s Alternative Christmas Program. This church, which was founded in 1955, had a progressive artistic aesthetic \u00a0through the 1960&#8217;s into the 1970&#8217;s. Evidence of this psychedelic art influence is still evidenced in their awe inspiring banner art, stained glass and wooden carvings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graphic-design","category-non-profit","category-portfolio","category-promotional-and-print-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}