{"id":11531,"date":"2021-07-25T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2021-07-29T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T00:25:08","slug":"the-maestro-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/25\/the-maestro-of-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maestro of San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/characters\/article\/bay-area-bodybuilder-cowboy-artist-16304506.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from SF Gate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The curious life of the Bay Area&#8217;s 84-year-old bodybuilding rhinestone cowboy artist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/author\/michelle-robertson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Robertson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/20\/71\/44\/21207342\/3\/1200x0.jpg\" alt=\"Stills of Maestro Gaxiola from the Criterion Collection.\u00a0\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><br><em>Stills of Maestro Gaxiola from the Criterion Collection.\u00a0Courtesy of the Criterion Collection<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his 84 years, Gerald \u201cThe Maestro\u201d Gaxiola has been an artist, a bodybuilder, a philosopher, a writer, a singer\/songwriter, a leather worker, a salesman and an aircraft mechanic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above all, he is a Bay Area legend. Gaxiola has lived in Albany for decades, where he became a visible figure thanks to his handmade rhinestone cowboy outfits and \u201cMaestro Day,\u201d a short-lived celebration of art, life and cowboys.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gaxiola has not held a day job for nearly five decades. He\u2019s painted an estimated 11,000 works of art, but refuses to sell them. He lives, indubitably, the artist\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/characters\/article\/bay-area-bodybuilder-cowboy-artist-16304506.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at SF Gate<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SF Gate The curious life of the Bay Area&#8217;s 84-year-old bodybuilding rhinestone cowboy artist by Michelle Robertson Stills of Maestro Gaxiola from the Criterion Collection.\u00a0Courtesy of the Criterion Collection In his 84 years, Gerald \u201cThe Maestro\u201d Gaxiola has been an artist, a bodybuilder, a philosopher, a writer, a singer\/songwriter, a leather worker, a salesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}