{"id":512,"date":"2011-06-19T22:41:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2011-06-21T22:41:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:41:52","slug":"old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I had some free time, which I haven&#8217;t had in a while. I decided to catch up on some of my painting. I haven&#8217;t painted anything sense I&#8217;ve moved. How crazy is that!? I have a wonderful porch with a beautiful view of my roommate&#8217;s flowers and I haven&#8217;t painted any of them. Man am I crazy!<\/p>\n<p>Because Andrew, my roommate, is growing roses next to the porch, I decided to paint them. I personally don&#8217;t like roses. I think they look and smell ok and hurt like hell when poked. Nevertheless, I painted what was in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>Painting after a long absence of it made me think of old friends. It made me think of high school buddies and college brothers. Made me remember how bad I am at keeping in touch with people. My best friend moved back home a month ago and I have yet to call him up. How lame is that?<\/p>\n<p>My painting also made me realize how impatient I am. Man was it excruciating to wait for the petals to dry so that I could paint another layer or add the stems. I wrote emails, prayed, stared into space, and tried to do anything to bide my time. Man was it hard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" title=\"Chinese Roses\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog_06_19_11.jpg\" alt=\"water color painting of rose with poem\" width=\"580\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog_06_19_11.jpg 580w, https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog_06_19_11-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while since I painted with water color so I decided to take a whack at it again. All it did was show how impatient I am and how much I missed my friends. <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/old-friends\/\">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":[11],"tags":[173,184,183],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-chinese-water-color","tag-friends","tag-rose"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}