{"id":2,"date":"2021-06-02T17:07:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:57:40","slug":"life-career","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/","title":{"rendered":"William Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/06\/homeportrait-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black and White Portrait of William Morris\" class=\"wp-image-235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/06\/homeportrait-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/06\/homeportrait.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>William Morris was a designer of stained glass, tapestries, wallpaper, chintzes, furniture, books, and typefaces. He was also a preservationist, socialist, poet, novelist, lecturer, calligrapher, translator of classic Icelandic and early English sagas, and founder of the Kelmscott press. He was born in 1834, and died at 62 in 1896, due to (according to his physician); \u201csimply being William Morris, and having done more work than most ten men.\u201d Morris became involved with socialist causes in the late 1870s. He found it impossible to separate esthetic issues from social and political ones, to him social reform was simply an extension of his arts and crafts production.<br>Morris\u2019s obituary in The New York Times stresses the variety of his life and work, the \u201cunusual combination of manufacture and literature that he seemed to have a sort of dual existence in the eyes of the public. His poems were \u2018by Morris, the wallpaper maker,\u2019 his wallpapers, \u2018by Morris, the poet\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Morris was a designer of stained glass, tapestries, wallpaper, chintzes, furniture, books, and typefaces. He was also a preservationist, socialist, poet, novelist, lecturer, calligrapher, translator of classic Icelandic and early English sagas, and founder of the Kelmscott press. He was born in 1834, and died at 62 in 1896, due to (according to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/williammorris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}