{"id":38233,"date":"2025-07-26T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38233\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:35:16","slug":"talent-shows-what-rail-car-graffiti-can-be-hasso-hering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/38233\/","title":{"rendered":"Talent shows what rail car graffiti can be \u2013 Hasso Hering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34635\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/rail-art-7-24-25-630x472.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"472\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-34635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not your usual scrawl: This example of rail car art attracted my attention Thursday, July 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On a bike ride past Albany Station, I looked across the platform to the rail yard beyond and saw something out of the ordinary. So I stopped, leaned the bike against a railing and cranked up the video function on my phone.<\/p>\n<p>This was the result:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As I said before Amtrak Cascades Train 507 pulled in just before 8 p.m., this rendition of praying hands took talent, skill and patience to complete.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s remarkable that the artist had as much time as he \u2014 or she \u2014 did. It must have taken a good part of the night to get this right, plus enough light to work by.<\/p>\n<p>Is there some kind of awards program for graffiti painters who are actually artists and not just vandals? If not, there ought to be.<\/p>\n<p>Then people waiting in their cars at grade crossings all over America would see classier images on the box cars passing by. (hh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not your usual scrawl: This example of rail car art attracted my attention Thursday, July 24, 2025. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-38233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}