{"id":7,"date":"2018-02-22T22:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2018-03-28T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T01:23:45","slug":"pigcasso-the-artistic-pig-with-a-passion-for-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/pigcasso-the-artistic-pig-with-a-passion-for-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigcasso: the artistic pig with a passion for painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHfCkc8VCuI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She was rescued as a little piglet from an industrial hog farm in South Africa. At her new home, the pig began showing interest in the paintbrushes lying around her pen.<\/p>\n<p>So the rescuer decided to train the pig\u2014named Pigcasso\u2014to paint using a positive-reinforcement technique in which animals receive food rewards. The fact Pigcasso gets positive reinforcement for painting does not &#8220;minimize what she&#8217;s doing or the quality of her paintings.&#8221;  Just look at her work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Many animals have natural instincts for art and creativity. When she paints, Pigcasso is using skills that come naturally, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was rescued as a little piglet from an industrial hog farm in South Africa. At her new home, the pig began showing interest in the paintbrushes lying around her pen. So the rescuer decided[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}