{"id":263,"date":"2010-03-11T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2010-03-11T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T05:01:47","slug":"prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/prelude\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at myself when I was a wee little lad, I realize how big of a dork I was. I hope most of us were in one way or another but that doesn&#8217;t excuse the fact that I <em>really<\/em> was a dork. This doesn&#8217;t mean I wish I could take any of it back because I&#8217;m a strong believer that who we were then helps define who we are now. I wouldn&#8217;t trade any of those days when I said &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to people instead of &#8220;Hello&#8221; or told everyone that I was from another planet for anything. All I know is that I hope I&#8217;m not that dumb anymore. Today&#8217;s drawing is a tribute to that dorky little kid with an imaginary lizard that I once was.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-264\" title=\"Dorky Younger Self\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog_03_11_10.jpg\" alt=\"drawing of cartoon boy\" width=\"580\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog_03_11_10.jpg 580w, https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog_03_11_10-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that younger version of yourself that drove people nuts? Yeah, we were all little pests when we were kids. Well, those kids made us who we are today and for that, they deserve to be saluted. <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/prelude\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[94,14],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","tag-kids","tag-portrait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}