{"id":371,"date":"2020-12-11T21:13:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-12-19T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T16:46:39","slug":"van-hechter-love-elastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Van Hechter: Love Elastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a singer\/songwriter\/producer and artistic director. I own Isotop Records. My mission: to create beauty through sounds, words and visuals with always an edge of humor. True beauty doesn&#8217;t take itself seriously. It just exists&#8212; it never needs to feel superior nor to compare itself- as it understands its uniqueness.<br>About Love Elastic:<br>I was conceived in Fort Lauderdale. My parents got engaged on a specific strip of beach called Sebastian (before it was the gay bit) where they had been escaping regularly for years to just be&#8212;- lovers. 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