{"id":62,"date":"2007-09-01T00:31:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T05:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20070901\/flunked-school-but-sold-his-art-for-20-million\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:32","slug":"flunked-school-but-sold-his-art-for-20-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/flunked-school-but-sold-his-art-for-20-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Flunked school but sold his art for 20 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willard creates sculptures under a microscope that can fit inside of the head of a pin. His Charlie Chaplin balances perfectly on the end of a eyelash.<\/p>\n<p>But the man can&#8217;t read or write! &#8220;My teacher made me feel small,&#8221; he reports in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tjYaRCCpYSk\">YouTube video<\/a>. &#8220;She made me feel like I was nothing. I&#8217;m trying to prove that nothing, doesn&#8217;t exist,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Willard&#8217;s teacher should rethink the value she places on students with learning disabilities like those Willard suffers from. A collector just bought up Willard&#8217;s private stock of his sculptures for USD $20 million. Hah! Good on you, Mr. Willard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willard creates sculptures under a microscope that can fit inside of the head of a pin. His Charlie Chaplin balances perfectly on the end of a eyelash. But the man can&#8217;t read or write! &#8220;My teacher made me feel small,&#8221; he reports in a YouTube video. &#8220;She made me feel like I was nothing. I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/flunked-school-but-sold-his-art-for-20-million\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flunked school but sold his art for 20 million&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}