{"id":3825,"date":"2017-02-01T21:32:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2017-03-15T00:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:28:31","slug":"the-motorbike-and-sidecar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/01\/the-motorbike-and-sidecar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Motorbike and Sidecar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This oil painting is of a motorbike and sidecar which was parked in a demolition area adjoining Railway St. Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>I found the subject arresting and evocative, the sight of it stopped me in my tracks. I made the drawing immediately.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3918\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sidecar.png\" alt=\"sidecar oil painting William Lonsdale artist\" width=\"1003\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sidecar.png 1003w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sidecar-300x214.png 300w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/sidecar-768x548.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3827 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FullSizeRender-3.jpg\" alt=\"sidecar motorbike sketch William Lonsdale artist\" width=\"400\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FullSizeRender-3.jpg 543w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FullSizeRender-3-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transported fifty years out of it&#8217;s time, the dream getaway machine of the hungry thirties, parked at a kerbside of a once terraced street, the terraces demolished flattened, a black icon of working class aspiration &#8211; a childhood wonder object &#8211; a time machine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3828 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FullSizeRender-5.jpg\" alt=\"black sidecar Nelson Lancashire painting William Lonsdale artist\" width=\"723\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FullSizeRender-5.jpg 723w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FullSizeRender-5-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although passing the spot twice daily as I walked to and from the railway station, I never saw the object again.\u00a0 WL August 1982<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This oil painting is of a motorbike and sidecar which was parked in a demolition area adjoining Railway St. Nelson. I found the subject arresting and evocative, the sight of it stopped me in my tracks. I made the drawing immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}