{"id":597,"date":"2010-09-25T22:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=597"},"modified":"2010-10-16T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T08:44:09","slug":"foetus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/09\/25\/foetus\/","title":{"rendered":"Foetus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_598\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1090615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-598\" title=\"P1090615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1090615-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1090615-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1090615-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1090615.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rue Ste Croix de la Bretonnerie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a case of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou had to be there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. In several streets where I have walked, mainly in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> to 4<sup>th<\/sup> arrondissements, there are these large paintings on the pavement of a foetus, sometimes in the womb. They are not stencils but the uniformity of the different renditions and their size suggests that the act of painting them involved a performance calibrated to the artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body measurements. I could speculate about what event, cause or band they were advertising, but really I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. I suppose the meaning of this graffiti was understandable at the time when it was done.<\/p>\n<p>The foetus in Rue des Halles is an example of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclayering\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,\u00c2\u00a0where one piece of pavement graffiti is laid over another \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in this case the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcofficial graffiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of a pedestrian crossing. The photograph also shows a pair of police on roller blades.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_601\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P10908101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-601\" title=\"P1090810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P10908101-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P10908101-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P10908101-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rue des Halles<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a case of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou had to be there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. In several streets where I have walked, mainly in the 1st to 4th arrondissements, there are these large paintings on the pavement of a foetus, sometimes in the womb. They are not stencils but the uniformity of the different renditions and their size suggests that <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/09\/25\/foetus\/#more-597\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[3,91],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries","tag-graffiti","tag-paris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}