{"id":22871,"date":"2015-07-23T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=22871"},"modified":"2015-07-22T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:32:27","slug":"jay-mohler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/jay-mohler\/","title":{"rendered":"jay mohler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/JayMohler.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/JayMohler.jpg\" alt=\"JayMohler\" width=\"584\" height=\"6030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/JayMohler.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/JayMohler-29x300.jpg 29w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in the girl scouts when I was a kid. I made A LOT of\u00a0these\u00a0&#8220;Ojos de Dios&#8221; or &#8220;God&#8217;s Eye&#8221; pieces\u00a0&#8230; well, these just\u00a0put<em> all<\/em> of them to shame! North Carolina based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/JaysMandalas\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Mohler<\/a>\u00a0has been weaving since the 1960&#8217;s. Here, in his own words, is a small snippet of Jay&#8217;s story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I starting making Ojos de Dios in my hippie days, back in the late 60&#8217;s, after seeing Ojos sent as part of an exhibit sent by the Dalai Lama of Tibet. These ojos from Tibet were almost exactly the same as ojos I&#8217;d seen earlier made by Hucholes in Mexico. Since then I&#8217;ve evolved my own work to 12-sided designs that I believe encompass patterns of many beliefs around the world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, they make me want to find some sticks, grab some yarn, and put my girl guide sash back on! If you want to try making one,\u00a0Jay not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/JaysMandalas\" target=\"_blank\">sells his work<\/a>, but he also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/85645599\/kit-for-making-your-own-8-sided-12-inch?ref=shop_home_active_6\" target=\"_blank\">sells DIY kits<\/a>\u00a0for just under $30. Fun!<\/p>\n<p><em>{via <a href=\"http:\/\/honestlywtf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Honestly WTF<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the girl scouts when I was a kid. I made A LOT of\u00a0these\u00a0&#8220;Ojos de Dios&#8221; or &#8220;God&#8217;s Eye&#8221; pieces\u00a0&#8230; well, these just\u00a0put all of them to shame! North Carolina based artist Jay Mohler\u00a0has been weaving since the 1960&#8217;s. Here, in his own words, is a small snippet of Jay&#8217;s story: &#8220;I starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,12,493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22876,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871\/revisions\/22876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}