{"id":546,"date":"2009-07-26T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-07-26T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T07:37:12","slug":"staples-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Staples City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an accountant (or in this case, an artist) has too much free time (typically during <a title=\"training\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/?p=119\" target=\"_self\">training<\/a>) and copious amounts of office supplies, this can happen:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Staples City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterroot.com\/index.php?\/projects\/low-rise\/\" target=\"_self\">Artist Peter Root has created a detailed cityscape over a mirror using staples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/high-rise-2006-detail.jpg\" alt=\"high-rise-2006-detail\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/high-rise-2006-detail.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/high-rise-2006-detail-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/high-rise-20061.jpg\" alt=\"high-rise-2006\" width=\"504\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/high-rise-20061.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/high-rise-20061-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Staples City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterroot.com\/index.php?\/projects\/low-rise\/\" target=\"_self\">From his own words<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a title=\"Gizmodo\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5322029\/staples-city-isas-you-would-expecta-city-made-of-staples\" target=\"_self\">Gizmodo<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an accountant (or in this case, an artist) has too much free time (typically during training) and copious amounts of office supplies, this can happen: Artist Peter Root has created a detailed cityscape over a mirror using staples. From his own words, Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[147],"tags":[178,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffaccountantslike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}