{"id":30,"date":"2009-06-16T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2009-07-31T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T13:00:42","slug":"watch-sparks-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sparks Fly, Celebration for Mr. Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Edna&#8217;s band, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/limeandthecoconuts\">Lime and the Coconuts<\/a>, played for a gathering honoring Philip Simmons, Charleston&#8217;s renowned ironworker.  Simmons fashioned more than 500 decorative pieces of ornamental wrought iron &#8212; gates, fences, balconies and window grills.  Mr. Simmons is 97 years old and a unifying force in the community.  He taught perseverance and diligence about his art and became a lifelong friend to Mary Edna.  They collaborated on two installations, her large-scale batiks on silk with his gazebo at Charleston International Airport and City Gates at the Visitor&#8217;s Center.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4387656&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4387656&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mary Edna Fraser and Philip Simmons at Charleston International Airport, SC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.celiedailey.com\/chas airport 2 sm.jpg\" alt=\"April, 1989 \u201cCharleston Waterways\u201d 74 yards x  36 feet, Charleston International Airport, SC\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">April, 1989 \u201cCharleston Waterways\u201d 74 yards x  36 feet, silk sculpture of the Charleston coastline.  Designed gazebo with master blacksmith Philip Simmons, Architect: LS3P.  Charleston International Airport, SC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Edna&#8217;s band, Lime and the Coconuts, played for a gathering honoring Philip Simmons, Charleston&#8217;s renowned ironworker. Simmons fashioned more than 500 decorative pieces of ornamental wrought iron &#8212; gates, fences, balconies and window grills. Mr. Simmons is 97 years old and a unifying force in the community. He taught perseverance and diligence about his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[11,12,16],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charleston","category-south-carolina","tag-lime-and-the-coconuts","tag-philip-simmons","tag-sunhead-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}