{"id":138,"date":"2007-07-06T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-07-06T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T14:53:00","slug":"stephen-wiltshire-draws-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/stephen-wiltshire-draws-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Wiltshire draws Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jVqRT_kCOLI\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Ro5ZTlv2xCI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/eQ1eDZmgQ8k\/s320\/2007-07-06+Stephen+Wiltshire.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084099222433088546\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jVqRT_kCOLI\">video<\/a> shows an amazing savant, Stephen Wiltshire, drawing a 5-1\/2-foot mural of Rome from the memory of a 45-minute helicopter ride. It took him 3 days, and his perspective and detail are incredibly accurate, as revealed by an overlay of aerial photos.<\/p>\n<p>We are an amazing variety of human beings, aren&#8217;t we? I contrast this feat with my experience last week: After 3-1\/2 hours of staring at and drawing just part of an arrangement of tricycle, open box and ladder, I was still seeing new details.  And further contrast: the experience of my friend who finds stick figure representations of people simply daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows an amazing savant, Stephen Wiltshire, drawing a 5-1\/2-foot mural of Rome from the memory of a 45-minute helicopter ride. It took him 3 days, and his perspective and detail are incredibly accurate, as revealed by an overlay of aerial photos. We are an amazing variety of human beings, aren&#8217;t we? I contrast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/stephen-wiltshire-draws-rome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stephen Wiltshire draws Rome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-2e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}