{"id":388,"date":"2012-12-07T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2016-02-11T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:22:42","slug":"painting-and-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"painting and such"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"painting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8252195357\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8062\/8252195357_f63d11206e_z.jpg\" alt=\"painting\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m spending most of my time these days finishing up my commission so I can really get started on Christmas presents. It&#8217;s turning out pretty good, which is much better than I usually feel about things I make. Taking a three year break from painting hasn&#8217;t seemed to affect my skills, and it was pretty easy to pick it back up again. I may have to do a little more painting in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anyway, Christmas-present-making always means a little break from blogging, so don&#8217;t expect to hear much from me until the new year. I&#8217;m really excited about this year&#8217;s presents, so it&#8217;ll be hard to hold off posting about them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In other news:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; Today I&#8217;m going to finish up my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hs4AUuZ9TKk\" target=\"_blank\">holiday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V9v5X1a23fU\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVvtAz7hlMU\" target=\"_blank\">playlist<\/a>&#8212; something I&#8217;ve had to work on in secret because I&#8217;m married to a Christmas music hater. What a humbug.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/strathconastockings.bigcartel.com\/product\/space-echo-socks\" target=\"_blank\">These<\/a> are so lovely, and so, so expensive.<br \/>\n&#8211; Can&#8217;t wait to get started on holiday treats with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Kejv2i\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending most of my time these days finishing up my commission so I can really get started on Christmas presents. It&#8217;s turning out pretty good, which is much better than I usually feel about things I make. Taking a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}