{"id":158,"date":"2009-08-14T16:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimitabby.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:06:36","slug":"will-smith-poet-author-painter-family-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mimitabby.com\/blog\/will-smith-poet-author-painter-family-man","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith, poet, author, painter, family man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mimitabby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/willsmith1911-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"willsmith191\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mimitabby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/willsmith1911-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.mimitabby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/willsmith1911-400x550.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mimitabby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/willsmith1911.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/> Artists can be opportunists, and I am no exception. When this gentleman showed up in my office building, I knew I had to paint his face. What a relief it was to me when he was amenable to the idea. Look out, mad painters abound in every corner and you never know if you will be the next victim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists can be opportunists, and I am no exception. When this gentleman showed up in my office building, I knew I had to paint his face. What a relief it was to me when he was amenable to the idea. Look out, mad painters abound in every corner and you never know if you will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portrait"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will Smith, poet, author, painter, family man - Mimi Torchia Boothby<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mimitabby.com\/blog\/will-smith-poet-author-painter-family-man\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Smith, poet, author, painter, family man - Mimi Torchia Boothby\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artists can be opportunists, and I am no exception. 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