{"id":1474,"date":"2023-09-17T17:36:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manzodakota.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:17:10","slug":"the-suggestion-of-flowers-on-the-sidewalk-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/the-suggestion-of-flowers-on-the-sidewalk-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"The suggestion of flowers on the sidewalk in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking around Chelsea in Manhattan on Saturday, visiting art galleries, when I noticed this combination of objects, pictured above. I didn&#8217;t touch it or move anything, what you see above is what I saw &#8211; and to me, it looked like a flower! Now, why would a long thin plant leaf like this end up on the sidewalk in NYC when there&#8217;s no similar plants nearby? And how is it that a muffin wrapper ended up on the ground at the end of it, exactly as you can see here?<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s some accidental art (and a good case of pareidolia), and not only do I see a flower in it, but I can also imagine a bouquet, as I&#8217;ve created using the image here below right.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3417\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/street-art-muffin-wrapper-flower.jpg\" alt=\"Street art muffin wrapper which looks like a flower\" width=\"950\" height=\"585\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/street-art-muffin-wrapper-flower.jpg 950w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/street-art-muffin-wrapper-flower-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/street-art-muffin-wrapper-flower-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A muffin wrapper found on the end of a leaf on a NYC sidewalk looks like a flower to me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking around Chelsea in Manhattan on Saturday, visiting art galleries, when I noticed this combination of objects, pictured above. I didn&#8217;t touch it or move anything, what you see above is what I saw &#8211; and to me, it looked like a flower! Now, why would a long thin plant leaf like this &#8230; <a title=\"The suggestion of flowers on the sidewalk in NYC\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/the-suggestion-of-flowers-on-the-sidewalk-in-nyc\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The suggestion of flowers on the sidewalk in NYC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[299,519,551,579,711],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-flower","tag-muffin","tag-nyc","tag-pareidolia","tag-street-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}