{"id":6438,"date":"2011-07-18T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T04:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2011-07-18T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T04:05:54","slug":"bradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/bradford\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crappy day today for reasons that will fade in importance in a few weeks or months. Not so big a deal. But I needed to work on something less brain burning than the third installment of the &#8220;Responsibilities in a police state&#8221; rant (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/07\/13\/responsibilities-of-a-resident-of-the-police-state-part-i\/\">part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/07\/14\/responsibilities-of-a-resident-of-the-police-state-part-ii\/\">part 2<\/a> for those who may have missed them).<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s Bradford, another late, lamented friend of a friend of mine. Bradford always liked to &#8220;help&#8221; pack up the plastic poinsettias after Christmas. I thought he looked like a statue, standing among the blossoms and greenery, so that&#8217;s how I drew him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/07\/18\/bradford\/bradforddrawing-small_0711\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BradfordDrawing-SMALL_0711-450x622.jpg\" alt=\"Bradford the tabby amid the poinsettias\" title=\"BradfordDrawing-SMALL_0711\" width=\"450\" height=\"622\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the photo I worked from, just to give you an idea of how things change:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/07\/18\/bradford\/bradford004-small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bradford004-SMALL.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of Bradford the tabby\" title=\"Bradford004-SMALL\" width=\"450\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bradford004-SMALL.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bradford004-SMALL-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crappy day today for reasons that will fade in importance in a few weeks or months. Not so big a deal. But I needed to work on something less brain burning than the third installment of the &#8220;Responsibilities in a police state&#8221; rant (part 1 and part 2 for those who may have missed them). So here&#8217;s Bradford, another late, lamented friend of a friend of mine. Bradford always liked to &#8220;help&#8221; pack up the plastic poinsettias after Christmas. I thought he looked like a statue, standing among the blossoms and greenery, so that&#8217;s how I drew him. Here&#8217;s the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/bradford\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bradford<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6438","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\/6438","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=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}