{"id":84,"date":"2010-01-15T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2010-01-15T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:24:30","slug":"the-alchemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/the-alchemist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alchemist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever read <em>The Alchemist<\/em>? It might be my favorite book ever. It&#8217;s the story of a boy who decides to sell everything he owns to follow his personal legend. A personal legend is kind of like your destiny. But it&#8217;s a destiny that you don&#8217;t have to follow. It&#8217;s the adventure you must take to if you want to truly make your life fulfilling. It&#8217;s a beautiful idea and I feel that there is a grain of truth in it. I definitely believe that you will at some time have to sacrifice a lot to embrace true happiness and fulfillment. I haven&#8217;t reached that point yet but when I do I&#8217;ll tell you what I find out.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today&#8217;s design is another drawing of a friend as a super hero. This one is my friend Cal, who may be the most enduring guy I know. He could live through anything. That&#8217;s why I think if he was an animal, he would be a camel or something like that. He also loves <em>The Alchemist<\/em> like me so I put him in the desert where the book mainly takes place in. Then of course I drew him without a shirt because that&#8217;s how he likes it: no shirt. This drawing took a little longer but I am happy with it. Keep coming back to see who I draw next.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85\" title=\"Desert Nomad\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog_01_13_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog_01_13_10.jpg 580w, https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog_01_13_10-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining Prince of Persia with The Alchemist, I made another super hero out of a really good friend of mine. Check out this one because it even comes with a camel! <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/the-alchemist\/\">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":[14,28,34],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","tag-portrait","tag-super-hero","tag-the-alchemist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}