{"id":1024,"date":"2011-10-17T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2011-10-17T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:53:59","slug":"an-uncommon-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"An Uncommon Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/liaap-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-395\" title=\"liaap-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/liaap-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>David Huggins, who is the subject of Farah Yurdozu&#8217;s book <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=34\">Love In An Alien Purgatory: The Life And Fantastic Art of David Huggins<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, has been interviewed by Corey Armpriester for <em>The Artblog<\/em>. The interview deals not just with his abduction experiences but with his paintings as art. Perhaps most interesting, however, are the interviewer&#8217;s introductory remarks about Huggins: &#8220;I\u2019m writing this piece not to give the impression that I know David is telling the truth, because I don\u2019t know; I\u2019m on the fence about all of this. I celebrate the world of ideas no matter how far out some of them may seem. Even if this is a made-up story from the mind of a delusional man, the power of the idea remains the same. Ideas are essential to the curious mind, and we as artists need not fear the ideas of other artists no matter how alien they sound. If David is indeed &#8216;crazy&#8217; he\u2019s in good company. Unusual ideas are almost always perceived as odd or askew until the common mind can make use of it. And as we all know artists are anything but common &#8230;&#8221; Read the full <em>Artblog<\/em> interview <a href=\"http:\/\/theartblog.org\/2011\/08\/david-huggins-an-uncommon-life\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Huggins, who is the subject of Farah Yurdozu&#8217;s book Love In An Alien Purgatory: The Life And Fantastic Art of David Huggins, has been interviewed by Corey Armpriester for The Artblog. The interview deals not just with his abduction experiences but with his paintings as art. Perhaps most interesting, however, are the interviewer&#8217;s introductory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-in-an-alien-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}