{"id":1205,"date":"2005-11-11T00:10:56","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/11\/art-everyday-month-day-11\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:46:23","slug":"art-everyday-month-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/11\/art-everyday-month-day-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Every Day Month &#8211; Day  11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a photo I took of myself in summer 2002. Below <em>that<\/em> is a drawing I made from it. It&#8217;s been years since I used real drawing pencils, and probably as many years since I actually tried to draw. I&#8217;m fairly pleased with the outcome (it actually resembles me!), except that I failed to catch the light within my eyes. I look impersonal. And I look slightly Siamese-cat (i.e., cross-eyed). I don&#8217;t know why when I make anything that isn&#8217;t a collage I feel timorous, as if I need to apologize for daring to make art and as if I should explain myself. But I figure as long as I continue to create, eventually I may stop prefacing my work this way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/62096312\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/25\/62096312_80baabbab2_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"self-portrait photo\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/62096313\/\" title=\"self-portrait - art every day month 05 - day 11 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/33\/62096313_0ac3332a43_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"238\" alt=\"self-portrait - art every day month 05 - day 11\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopostattribution\">Self-portrait, 7 &#8221; x 7&#8243; pencil on sketch paper<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a photo I took of myself in summer 2002. Below that is a drawing I made from it. It&#8217;s been years since I used real drawing pencils, and probably as many years since I actually tried to draw. I&#8217;m fairly pleased with the outcome (it actually resembles me!), except that I failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11390,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}