{"id":170,"date":"2013-08-24T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T01:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cysarts.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2013-10-26T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T02:09:19","slug":"gallery-introductions-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Gallery Introductions: Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">In a job interview recently the interviewer asked me, \u201cWhat is your hobby?\u201d \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">I answered, \u201cPainting\u201d. Without reflecting I added, \u201cIt saved me really.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5-A-Butterfly-in-Our-Garden-web.bmp\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-158  \" alt=\"5  A Butterfly in Our Garden web\" src=\"http:\/\/cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5-A-Butterfly-in-Our-Garden-web.bmp\" width=\"457\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A butterfly in our garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Suffering from several stressors at the time I found that painting definitely had therapeutic value as I reverted to a more traditional style in these images of nature. I raided my photo collection for images to paint, starting with this one of a swallowtail butterfly happily drawing nectar from the pansies in our garden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pic039.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172 \" alt=\"Pic039\" src=\"http:\/\/cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pic039-300x243.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pic039-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pic039-1024x832.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pic039-624x507.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pic039.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original photograph<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Next week on 31<sup>st<\/sup> August, I hope to introduce another gallery featuring works in a hybrid style, on the subject of \u2018God Cares\u2019.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a job interview recently the interviewer asked me, \u201cWhat is your hobby?\u201d \u00a0I answered, \u201cPainting\u201d. Without reflecting I added, \u201cIt saved me really.\u201d Suffering from several stressors at the time I found that painting definitely had therapeutic value as I reverted to a more traditional style in these images of nature. I raided my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cysarts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}