{"id":239,"date":"2018-08-10T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/?page_id=239"},"modified":"2021-09-23T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T04:03:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/?page_id=239","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-Boars-Stele.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2452\" height=\"1890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-Boars-Stele.jpg 2452w, https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-Boars-Stele-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-Boars-Stele-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-Boars-Stele-1024x789.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2452px) 100vw, 2452px\" \/>I&#8217;m a potter from Wollongong, a city on the strip of land between the Blue Mountains and the Pacific Ocean on the eastern seaboard of Australia. After a 40 year career in Courts administration (the past 20 years as the Chamber Magistrate at Wollongong Local Court), I now make and fire my pigment lustres.<\/p>\n<p>Reduced-pigment lustre has defied large-scale production, being dependent on a specialised third firing and using a reducing flame ( I fire with cypress pine, high in resin), making its results unrepeatable and thus unique.<\/p>\n<p>The unpredictability with its inherent risks,\u00a0 make this form of lustre both challenging and exciting.<\/p>\n<p>My production is limited but I try to hold an exhibition and sale every 2 years or so.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-239\" data-postid=\"239\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-239 themify_builder\">\n\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a potter from Wollongong, a city on the strip of land between the Blue Mountains and the Pacific Ocean on the eastern seaboard of Australia. After a 40 year career in Courts administration (the past 20 years as the Chamber Magistrate at Wollongong Local Court), I now make and fire my pigment lustres. Reduced-pigment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnkuczwal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}