{"id":34772,"date":"2017-10-19T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=34772"},"modified":"2017-10-19T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:29:05","slug":"kevin-chan-grumpy-bert-furry-friends-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/10\/19\/kevin-chan-grumpy-bert-furry-friends-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"~KEVIN CHAN . . GRUMPY BERT \/ &#8216;FURRY FRIENDS WELCOME&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;FATE, up against your will&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>needing . .  to lighten up ?<br \/>\nmuch !!<\/p>\n<p>On A Personal note, very personal . . . . &#038; it&#8217;s sad &#8211; so, be fore-warned.<br \/>\n2 young, carefree &#038; the sweetest 15 yr. old boys you could ever know, &#038; that I know from <strong>walking<\/strong> my dog, ever since she was a little 10 lb. puppy \/ last summer 2016 . . . got seriously hurt, one died and the other is fighting for his life after getting thrown over an 8 ft. high fence and tossed 30 ft. further . .  by a hit &#038; run young street thug speeding driver in Jersey yesterday, while they were bike riding.<br \/>\nI can barely contain my sadness.<br \/>\nthey would always stop and pet my super friendly, now 90 lb. Akita, Zora &#038; exclaim how big she was getting !!<br \/>\nFurry Friends . . also help you <strong>make<\/strong> human friends \/ and, help you to interface with &#8216;reality&#8217;, in a very special &#038; very happy way.<br \/>\nFate . .  came down on these 2 boys, way too harsh, and way too soon.<br \/>\nI feel like I need to take a moment to be . .  bio \/ human, &#038; not just keep up the usual &#8216;keyboard&#8217; banter \/ semi-impersonal art \/ computer-merged &#8216;dialog&#8217;, and . .  share my feelings of sadness, and very human loss.<br \/>\nI want to remember them happy and laughing, &#038; feel like they would like this . . gentle, funny, bittersweet thought, this <strong>pause<\/strong> of context, and &#8216;reach&#8217; . .  for greater humanity &#038; meaning, in the wider &#038; ongoing, always ongoing . .  scheme of things.<br \/>\nwith love &#038; heavy hearts, from their giant panda \/ furry friend Zora, and her inconsolable minder. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpybert.com\/blogs\/art-shows-events\/furry-friends-welcome-art-show\">&#8216;FURRY FRIENDS WELCOME&#8217;<\/a> . . is down    \/  SEPT 12 &#8211; OCT 15, 2017<br \/>\nbut,  you can still score a few unsold pieces . . .<br \/>\nin the: GRUMPY BERT . .  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpybert.com\/collections\/art\/furry-friends-welcome\">&#8216;FURRY FRIENDS WELCOME&#8217; \/  ONLINE STORE !!<\/a><br \/>\nincluding this one  . . . . !!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KEVIN-CHAN-GRUMPY-BERT.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KEVIN-CHAN-GRUMPY-BERT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34776\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKEVIN CHAN, &#8216;fate, up against your will&#8217;<br \/>\n7-1\/2 x 5-1\/2 ins.<br \/>\n($180)<\/p>\n<p>no words, ECHO &#038; THE BUNNYMEN !!<br \/>\nbunnymen \/ such a good word.<\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpybert.com\/collections\/art\/products\/fate-up-against-your-will\">KEVIN CHAN, GRUMPY BERT ONLINE STORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Grumpy-Bert-Logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Grumpy-Bert-Logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34778\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grumpybert.com\/collections\/art\/furry-friends-welcome\">GRUMPY BERT . . <\/a>82 BOND ST, BROOKLYN<br \/>\nHRS: TUES-SAT 12 &#8211; 7 PM &#038; SUN 12 &#8211; 6 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;FATE, up against your will&#8217; needing . . to lighten up ? much !! On A Personal note, very personal . . . . &#038; it&#8217;s sad &#8211; so, be fore-warned. 2 young, carefree &#038; the sweetest 15 yr. old boys you could ever know, &#038; that I know from walking my dog, ever since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34772"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34783,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions\/34783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}