{"id":479,"date":"2011-01-26T07:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/\/?p=479"},"modified":"2011-01-26T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:04:42","slug":"tattoo-story-j-bird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/tattoo-story-j-bird-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoo Story: J-Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-591\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/2011\/01\/26\/tattoo-story-j-bird-2\/j_1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-591\" title=\"j_1\" src=\"https:\/\/tristancrane.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Everyone deserves a chance to fly&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This was my very first tattoo. It&#8217;s a quote from the musical, &#8220;Wicked&#8221;. Its sung at a very pivotal point in the musical where the &#8220;wicked&#8221; witch defies all odds and flies, even when there are people trying to stop her. This quote reminds me that even though people may try to bring me down, I know I can defy their expectations and just be myself. If I don&#8217;t at least try, they win.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/\/wp-content\/gallery\/j-tat\/j-2.jpg\" alt=\"j-2\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Arrows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My best friend Mo stuck and poked me right before I moved for the Bay. Not only did it symbolize our friendship but it also symbolizes that no matter where I end up, that compass will always keep me from getting lost.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-592\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/2011\/01\/26\/tattoo-story-j-bird-2\/j_3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-592\" title=\"j_3\" src=\"https:\/\/tristancrane.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Crane Tattoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My grandfather was the first family member to pass away. I remember it was so hard for me to cope with his death that getting this tattoo in his memory was the only thing that helped ease my pain. I remembered my grandfather used to play with these Japanese playing cards. When he played, I remember as a child how that was the only time I really saw him smile and really enjoy himself. I took an image from one of these cards and did my own drawing interpretation of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-593\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/2011\/01\/26\/tattoo-story-j-bird-2\/j_4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-593\" title=\"j_4\" src=\"https:\/\/tristancrane.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_4.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/j_4-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Triangle<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I started to identify as &#8220;Queer&#8221;, not just as a &#8220;Lesbian&#8221;, is when I got this tattoo. I couldn&#8217;t have been more proud of how much I opened my heart and my mind to infinite possibilities of sex, gender, identity, and love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Live in San Francisco and have some ink you&#8217;d like to show off, or are a tattoo artist who just finished a really cool piece? <a href=\"..\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contact <\/a>me about a shoot. I&#8217;m always looking for people with creative and interesting tats to work with.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everyone deserves a chance to fly&#8221; This was my very first tattoo. It&#8217;s a quote from the musical, &#8220;Wicked&#8221;. Its sung at a very pivotal point in the musical where the &#8220;wicked&#8221; witch defies all odds and flies, even when there are people trying to stop her. This quote reminds me that even though people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/tattoo-story-j-bird-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tattoo Story: J-Bird&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,187,188,189,15,164,10,190,96,191],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-crane","tag-ink","tag-j-bird","tag-portrait","tag-queer","tag-san-francisco","tag-self-expression","tag-tattoo","tag-tattoo-stories-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}