{"id":182,"date":"2013-07-10T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:17:09","slug":"episode-6-tommy-van-auken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Episode 6: Tommy Van Auken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ani-003a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ani-003a-e1373417656297.jpg\" alt=\"ani-003a\" width=\"774\" height=\"699\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Van Auken is a painter living here in Richmond Virginia. One of the few guys I know who has made a decent go of it for a while as an artist living the life here in the &#8220;velvet coffin&#8221;. I&#8217;ve always been impressed with the rock star way he went about being a painter very SOHO eighties long hair motorcycle rider paint jockey. Listen to us talk crap about art I&#8217;m a dilettante and a half but I think I hang ok. Check out his art:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomasvanauken.wordpress.com\/page\/3\/\">Tommy&#8217;s page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tommy-v.mp3\">tommy v<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tantric-conversation\/id667224769 \">ITUNES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Van Auken is a painter living here in Richmond Virginia. One of the few guys I know who has made a decent go of it for a while as an artist living the life here in the &#8220;velvet coffin&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/?p=182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tantricconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}