{"id":408,"date":"2010-03-21T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-03-22T04:47:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:47:10","slug":"urban-trees-6-now-on-san-diego-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/urban-trees-6-now-on-san-diego-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Trees 6 now on San Diego waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good overview of this year&#8217;s installment of the Urban Tree project from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.com\/arts\/urban-trees-art-on-the-san-diego-waterfront\">SanDiego.com<\/a>&#8216;s David Batterson:<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s no bark on these \u201ctrees,\u201d and dogs won&#8217;t be fertilizing them. Urban Trees 6 is this year&#8217;s planting of marvelous sculptures downtown along Harbor Drive, from the Cruise Ship Terminal to Hawthorn Street. They&#8217;ll be there for a year, and nary a leaf will fall.<\/p>\n<p>The public art project began in 2003, and here&#8217;s how it works. Artists submit a model of their urban tree idea, and the Port of San Diego&#8217;s public art committee narrows it down to 30 finalists. From those little acorns, great oaks then grow. Each artist gets a base and pole (the tree \u201ctrunk\u201d) and $2,500 for materials (whatever the artist wants to use).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting while walking along to see how others view the trees&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nRead the rest with pictures at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.com\/arts\/urban-trees-art-on-the-san-diego-waterfront\">SanDiego.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good overview of this year&#8217;s installment of the Urban Tree project from SanDiego.com&#8216;s David Batterson:&nbsp; There&#8217;s no bark on these \u201ctrees,\u201d and dogs won&#8217;t be fertilizing them. Urban Trees 6 is this year&#8217;s planting of marvelous sculptures downtown along Harbor Drive, from the Cruise Ship Terminal to Hawthorn Street. They&#8217;ll be there for a year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[473,762,477,769,766,414,765,763,759,764,768,767,761,760],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-events-in-san-diego","tag-art-committee","tag-batterson","tag-cruise-ship-terminal","tag-dogs","tag-little-acorns","tag-port-of-san-diego","tag-public-art-project","tag-s-david","tag-san-diego-waterfront","tag-sandiego","tag-sculptures","tag-tree-trunk","tag-urban-tree","tag-urban-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theframemaker.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}