{"id":905,"date":"2005-05-25T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/25\/percolating\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:49","slug":"percolating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/25\/percolating\/","title":{"rendered":"Percolating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a piece of artboard that I painted a year ago.  Then I moved and avoided doing anything more with it.  It&#8217;s been sitting in my workspace as a reminder to return to it. The truth is, I&#8217;m not that keen on how the colors came out.  <\/p>\n<p>This evening I went out and proceeded to work on it.  I had no theme, no ideas.  I just began with embossing glitter and glitter glue.  I came across a quote, a Zen koan, and liked it.  So that went on there, as did a few punch-cut leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, I still don&#8217;t like it.  The colors are similar, subtle, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s very arresting to the eye.  However, I&#8217;m determined to work on it until it is done, and the least I&#8217;ll have <em>made something<\/em>.  Regardless of the end result, it will have served to percolate my creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a piece of artboard that I painted a year ago. Then I moved and avoided doing anything more with it. It&#8217;s been sitting in my workspace as a reminder to return to it. The truth is, I&#8217;m not that keen on how the colors came out. This evening I went out and proceeded [&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-905","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\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}