{"id":28961,"date":"2019-05-29T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T00:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28961"},"modified":"2019-05-29T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T00:49:21","slug":"briefly-98-year-old-artist-shows-its-never-too-late-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28961","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: 98-year-old artist shows it\u2019s never too late for success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Luchita-Hurtado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28962\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Luchita-Hurtado.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Luchita-Hurtado.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Luchita-Hurtado-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luchita Hurtado has been painting for her entire life, but she never had any public recognition until now. The 98-year-old artist is originally from Venezuela but now lives in London. She started painting at night while everybody else slept, but she never imagined she would one day get recognition from the art world. Hurtado has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-48384280\/london-artist-hosts-first-gallery-exhibition-aged-98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showing of her work<\/a> at\u00a0London\u2019s Serpentine Galleries\u00a0that runs until October \u2014 and it\u2019s the first public recognition her work has ever gotten. If there\u2019s something you want to do \u2014 or something you need to do \u2014 you can still do it. The best time to start pursuing what you love was years ago, but the next best time is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luchita Hurtado has been painting for her entire life, but she never had any public recognition until now. The 98-year-old artist is originally from Venezuela but now lives in London. She started painting at night while everybody else slept, but she never imagined she would one day get recognition from the art world. Hurtado has <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28961\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7x7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28963,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28961\/revisions\/28963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}