{"id":192,"date":"2010-02-11T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-02-11T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:24:22","slug":"ribbit-ribbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/ribbit-ribbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbit! Ribbit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I have yet to work on the design I’m excited for; nonetheless, I did have fun painting today. What animal do you think of when you think about Valentine’s Day? I think about frogs every time. I don’t even know why. Its not like they’re pretty, sensual, erotic, or do it a lot. They are just slimy, cool little creatures that in a way, have evolved better than us (just because they can breathe under water). Yes, I know about the Frog Prince and if you kiss a frog they’ll turn into yours truly but still, what makes that story more Valentine’s-y than Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, Snow White, or any other fairy tale about true love?<\/p>\n

You know what story should be thought of when Valentine’s Day comes around? That’s right, The Princess Bride<\/em>. It’s a ridiculous movie with horrible special effects, acting, and writing but for some reason when Wesley and Princess Buttercup get together you just have to say “Ahh.”<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, today’s painting is of a frog because even though they don’t have that great of a right to be Saint Valentine’s mascot, they are still really cool.<\/p>\n

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Why is the frog Saint Valentine’s mascot? I’m not sure. I don’t think it should but I still think its one of my favorite animals. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[66,65],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-frog","tag-valentines-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}