{"id":29780,"date":"2017-03-04T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T01:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2017-03-04T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T01:45:36","slug":"candles-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/candles-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Candles in the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CandlesIntheWind-SMALL_030417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CandlesIntheWind-SMALL_030417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"793\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CandlesIntheWind-SMALL_030417.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CandlesIntheWind-SMALL_030417-450x357.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CandlesIntheWind-SMALL_030417-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CandlesIntheWind-SMALL_030417-800x634.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done any art in a while. Painted these candles this afternoon from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotel-r.net\/im\/hotel\/caribbean\/tt\/candles-in-the-wind-5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">photo I found online<\/a>. This is a small study that took about two hours.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to add caveats about not being a very good artist and being rusty and there being an irritating <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentimento\" target=\"_blank\"><em>pentimento<\/em><\/a> in the image, etc., etc., etc. (And I confess I always wanted to use the word pentimento in a real-live sentence. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard it spoken aloud since my one-and-only Art History class many moons ago.)<\/p>\n<p>But screw it. You know and will undoubtedly forgive all that.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the new &#8220;I am no longer A Writer&#8221; blog approach might well be about aesthetics or spirituality, so I thought this was a good beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done any art in a while. Painted these candles this afternoon from a photo I found online. This is a small study that took about two hours. I was going to add caveats about not being a very good artist and being rusty and there being an irritating pentimento in the image, etc., etc., etc. (And I confess I always wanted to use the word pentimento in a real-live sentence. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard it spoken aloud since my one-and-only Art History class many moons ago.) But screw it. You know and will undoubtedly forgive all that.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/04\/candles-in-the-wind\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Candles in the Wind<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29788,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions\/29788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}