{"id":2681,"date":"2025-09-28T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:47:23","slug":"happiest-sentence-to-read-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2025\/09\/28\/happiest-sentence-to-read-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiest sentence to read today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Congratulations! Your submission &#8220;Medicalized &#8221; has been accepted to &#8220;Exquisite Corpse!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1000004529-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1000004529-391x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"520\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2684\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am honored to grace their gallery walls with pieces of me. This particular piece has been in my mind for years. I held onto some of my port supplies after finally getting it removed 9 years, 5 months, and a day after being traumatically shoved into my chest around 2 am during a nightmare inpatient stay in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Come see it in person at the Opening Reception:<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 11th, from 4\u20138pm<\/p>\n<p>The evening will be filled with eerie delights, including hauntingly insightful Tarot readings by Samela St. Pierre (@3eyed.tiger) and an unforgettable Exquisite Corpse performance by Rhythm and Roots. Join us for a night where the strange, the surreal, and the spectral come alive!<\/p>\n<p>Enter if you dare\u2026 On Saturday, October 11th, from 4\u20138pm, Mosaic Art Collective invites you to the Calling Hours (opening reception) for this year\u2019s Exquisite Corpse.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibition Dates: Oct 6, 2025, 12PM \u2013 Nov 3, 2025, 12PM<br \/>\nMosaic Art Collective Gallery 66 Hanover Street, Suite 201 Manchester.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250927_214956821.PORTRAIT-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PXL_20250927_214956821.PORTRAIT-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2686\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArtist Statement:<\/p>\n<p>Living with the suicide disease CRPS, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, the most painful disease known to medicine. Locked in the loop of needles, treatments, and badassery survival. Inspired by my port.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1000004530-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1000004530-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2685\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArtwork Details<br \/>\nMedium &#8211; Mixed Media<br \/>\nDimensions 14 \u00d7 11 \u00d7 1 in<br \/>\n&#8220;Medicalized&#8221; Finished 9\/27\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Congratulations! Your submission &#8220;Medicalized &#8221; has been accepted to &#8220;Exquisite Corpse!&#8221; I am honored to grace their gallery walls with pieces of me. This particular piece has been in my mind for years. I held onto some of my port supplies after finally getting it removed 9 years, 5 months, and a day after being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}