{"id":111243,"date":"2025-10-30T00:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111243\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:15:17","slug":"artist-francis-otoole-i-spent-a-long-time-in-st-jamess-hospital-watching-my-foot-and-lower-leg-slowly-rot-and-turn-black-i-eventually-ended-up-with-a-below-knee-amputati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111243\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Francis O\u2019Toole: \u2018I spent a long time in St James\u2019s Hospital watching my foot, and lower leg, slowly rot and turn black. I eventually ended up with a below-knee amputation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nArt: What Lies Beneath\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'The Waste Land', by Francis O'Toole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SF Waste Land (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;The Waste Land&#8217;, by Francis O&#8217;Toole<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For Francis O\u2019Toole, the beginning was ordinary enough. \u201cAn odd, badly done scribble in a copybook now and then\u201d and \u201cfar-from-inspiring art classes\u201d were all he knew, his knowledge of art and artists \u201cnearly non-existent\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The family lived in Fatima Mansions, Ballymun, Jobstown, Tallaght and eventually settled in Crumlin. Childhood was spent outdoors with friends or on his own, roaming the streets, fields, back lanes, scrap yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art: What Lies Beneath &#8216;The Waste Land&#8217;, by Francis O&#8217;Toole For Francis O\u2019Toole, the beginning was ordinary enough.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-111243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}