{"id":12450,"date":"2019-10-18T06:51:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T06:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/?p=12450"},"modified":"2019-10-21T03:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:56:54","slug":"heavy-water-digs-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/heavy-water-digs-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Water Digs Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12454\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2-1024x796.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2\" width=\"648\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2-648x503.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2-247x192.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_LotusGirl_DSC0040-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At La Luz de Jesus Gallery through October 27<sup>th<\/sup>, Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman invites viewers to step inside her dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Her new exhibition\u00a0<em>Heavy Water<\/em> is pure vision, a deepening of her work,\u00a0 in which the viewer literally and figuratively can wade into an alchemic world awash in portent. Her characters are girls caught in a perpetual, magical youth, suffused with golden light. Sullivan-Beeman explains her paintings as a \u201cdive headfirst into the soup of the collective unconscious. There, in the most ancient realm of the mind, I inherit stories. Like\u00a0water, I draw my girls up from the deepest well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12452\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL\" width=\"648\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL-648x972.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL-128x192.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SeahorseGirl_DSC0006_FINAL.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title of this exhibition refers to what the artist describes as \u201cthe rarest and most dangerous substance on Earth\u2026 made from ordinary tap water.\u201d She posits that no one would notice the difference should the material replace the water coming from one\u2019s tap, H20 turned to the lethal D20, \u201ca stepping stone towards the atomic bomb.\u201d First produced in 1932 and used in nuclear energy research, in Sullivan-Beeman\u2019s dream world, her girls use the material for creation instead of destruction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12458\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4-1024x1012.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4\" width=\"648\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4-1024x1012.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4-648x641.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4-194x192.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlowerGirl_DSC0019-4.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each painting is created in the artist\u2019s signature style, using egg tempera, the time-consuming artistic process once employed by the Old Masters. The medium she uses, as well as being unique today, inherently carries a quality of luminance. Her most delicate images seem to glow with power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72698609_10218435720591513_3858327309937278976_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12515\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72698609_10218435720591513_3858327309937278976_n.jpg\" alt=\"72698609_10218435720591513_3858327309937278976_n\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72698609_10218435720591513_3858327309937278976_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72698609_10218435720591513_3858327309937278976_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72698609_10218435720591513_3858327309937278976_n-648x864.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72698609_10218435720591513_3858327309937278976_n-144x192.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viewers are encouraged to begin their journey through Heavy Water with Sulllivan-Beeman&#8217;s installation, in which she makes use of both stencils and sculptural elements to take viewers to the bottom of the sea, where jelly fish swim and kelp beds sway. The immersive quality of her laser-cut giant 6-foot seahorse, still-dressed skeleton, glittery treasure chest, and giant rabbit are pulled straight from her paintings; some elements of the installation were collaborated with artist Gina M. \u201cI really want the viewer to experience the whole show and \u2018swim\u2019 through the art,\u201d Sullivan-Beeman relates.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the oversized 3D sculptural images feel perfectly natural, as if they\u2019ve emerged from within the paintings; this is due at least in part to the fact that the paintings have a depth in technique that makes them feel richly dimensional.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12459\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079-864x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079\" width=\"648\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079-864x1024.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079-648x768.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079-162x192.jpg 162w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FlamingoGirl_NEW2_DSC0079.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The paintings lead viewers through images that traverse the natural and fantastical world, through history and daydreams, all alight from within. While it might seem unlikely to create work that takes the figurative to the edge of surreal, Sullivan-Beeman has done so, shaping a narrative not unlike a sci-fi Beatrix Potter. Mystical, magical and powerfully practical, the girls in Sullivan-Beeman\u2019s works represent the artist\u2019s own subconscious, a world of fairytales and innocence, of struggle and resistance, of wisdom and self-realization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DeirdreSullivanBeeman_AlchemyGirl_HeavyWater2019_DSC0006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12462\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DeirdreSullivanBeeman_AlchemyGirl_HeavyWater2019_DSC0006-1024x753.jpg\" alt=\"DeirdreSullivanBeeman_AlchemyGirl_HeavyWater2019_DSC0006\" width=\"648\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DeirdreSullivanBeeman_AlchemyGirl_HeavyWater2019_DSC0006-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DeirdreSullivanBeeman_AlchemyGirl_HeavyWater2019_DSC0006-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DeirdreSullivanBeeman_AlchemyGirl_HeavyWater2019_DSC0006-648x476.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DeirdreSullivanBeeman_AlchemyGirl_HeavyWater2019_DSC0006-261x192.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Alchemy Girl,&#8221; a smoky-eyed, pink-haired girl reclines on a desk pouring heavy water into a beaker, while a human-sized rabbit somewhat frantically writes atomic equations on a blackboard behind her. She is clad in a blue dress with white pinafore reminiscent of <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>; perhaps Alice and the White Rabbit now exist in an alternate universe. Her intense, forthright gaze challenges the viewer: she has the power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12460\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107\" width=\"648\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107-648x509.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107-244x192.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_FindingMarylinGirl_2_DSC0107.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;Finding Marilyn Girl,&#8221; we also see echoes of Alice. There\u2019s a white rabbit of sorts \u2013 with a skull face &#8211; tucked under the arm of a girl wearing the Mad Hatter\u2019s headgear. She peers into an opening in a tree, through which Marilyn Monroe\u2019s visage floats &#8211; a search for something lost, aspects of powerful gain. Who controls life\u2019s game here? Alice has bested both hatter and rabbit, and has exhumed the ghost and grandeur of a fairy-tale movie star. There is also an Alice-like vested rabbit steering the boat of a languid &#8220;Lotus Girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12457\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053-818x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053\" width=\"648\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053-818x1024.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053-648x812.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053-153x192.jpg 153w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GasMaskGirl_DSC0053.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wild-haired, haunting \u201cGas Mask Girl\u201d has a perfect bird perched on the hose to her mask; she may be at risk, but she has secured herself, and the bird \u2013 a promise for a brighter future, perhaps \u2013 has aligned with her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12463\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100\" width=\"648\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100-648x503.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100-247x192.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_AscendingGirl_2_DSC0100.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAscending Girl\u201d arises from water in a beam of holy light, as UFOs fly overhead, a toucan watches, and another girl, clad in a bathing suit and clutching a beach ball, looks on. From this fecund, tropical world, a girl chooses to fly upward and onward, heading to a place few of us can imagine, much less aspire, to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SnowWhiteGirl_DSC0015_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12451\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SnowWhiteGirl_DSC0015_-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_SnowWhiteGirl_DSC0015_\" width=\"648\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SnowWhiteGirl_DSC0015_-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SnowWhiteGirl_DSC0015_-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SnowWhiteGirl_DSC0015_-648x518.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_SnowWhiteGirl_DSC0015_-240x192.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The entire exhibition is filled with beautiful, loving images \u2013 butterflies and sea life, a squirrel interested in a fallen Snow White&#8217;s discarded apple, an adorable hedgehog, a minute giraffe, a glorious pink flamingo. And of course, Sullivan-Beeman&#8217;s fascinating, complicated, magical girls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12455\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060\" width=\"648\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060-648x983.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060-127x192.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_HedgehogGirl_DSC0060.jpg 1319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If art is a realized dream, then Sullivan-Beeman\u2019s works a dream within a dream. It\u2019s time to take a deep dive into her <em>Heavy Water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12456\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059-677x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059\" width=\"648\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059-648x980.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059-127x192.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_GiraffeGirl_DSC0059.jpg 1322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72303078_10218435719871495_5522971554859712512_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12516\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72303078_10218435719871495_5522971554859712512_n.jpg\" alt=\"72303078_10218435719871495_5522971554859712512_n\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72303078_10218435719871495_5522971554859712512_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72303078_10218435719871495_5522971554859712512_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72303078_10218435719871495_5522971554859712512_n-648x864.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/72303078_10218435719871495_5522971554859712512_n-144x192.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>La Luz de Jesus Gallery is located at 4633 Hollywood Blvd.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genie Davis; photos provided by\u00a0 Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman and Genie Davis\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At La Luz de Jesus Gallery through October 27th, Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman invites viewers to step inside her dreams. Her new exhibition\u00a0Heavy Water is pure vision, a deepening of her work,\u00a0 in which the viewer literally and figuratively can wade into an alchemic world awash in portent. Her characters are girls caught in a perpetual, magical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/heavy-water-digs-deep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heavy Water Digs Deep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1132,1325,1324,933],"class_list":["post-12450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-deirdre-sullivan-beeman","tag-gina-m","tag-heavy-water","tag-la-luz-de-jesus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSB_ButterflyGirl_DSC0018.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12519,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions\/12519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}