{"id":7436,"date":"2012-11-02T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:48:09","slug":"art-every-day-month-day-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2012\/11\/02\/art-every-day-month-day-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Every Day Month &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I face a blank page with the intention of creating, it&#8217;s a little daunting &#8212; or, as Bean days, &#8220;nervous-making.&#8221; If I don&#8217;t have any ideas, I try to sit with my curiosity as my hands move. One line on the page begets another, and another. Sometimes I&#8217;m really surprised with what comes up. Sometimes I really like what I do, and other times I feel unimpressed, but I&#8217;m nevertheless astonished at the process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/8148253424\/\" title=\"the gardener - aedm 2012 - day 2 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8055\/8148253424_137064781f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" alt=\"the gardener - aedm 2012 - day 2\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center>The Gardener \/ 5&#8243; x 7&#8243; ink on sketch paper<\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.<\/p>\n<p>-J. C. Raulston<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I face a blank page with the intention of creating, it&#8217;s a little daunting &#8212; or, as Bean days, &#8220;nervous-making.&#8221; If I don&#8217;t have any ideas, I try to sit with my curiosity as my hands move. One line on the page begets another, and another. Sometimes I&#8217;m really surprised with what comes up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,30,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-nature","category-quotes","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436","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=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}