{"id":63,"date":"2006-02-07T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/testblog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:39:29","slug":"self-portrait-with-owl-needlecase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/self-portrait-with-owl-needlecase\/","title":{"rendered":"self portrait with owl needlecase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/owl-759398.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/owl-755998.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nNot what the teacher wanted, but typical of my primary school art efforts.<\/p>\n<p>In my lateral-thinking impatience, I&#8217;d decided against even rows for tapestries. Quicker. Nearly the same, really. My Mum supported me, my right as a child to view the world differently, to question and explore. She helped me choose a white\/brown wool for the legs, tying the owl to the branch.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher hadn&#8217;t bothered to check what I was doing &#8217;till I was almost done. Again.  I remember the hot, darkish demountable* and the look on her face. There wasn&#8217;t time for me to do it over, I was to leave it as was.<\/p>\n<p>I was half disappointed, half defiant. I do like the thick fuzzy stars, like the way the different sized rows recall the horizon. The white lines in between are merely a mistake, my misunderstanding of the teacher&#8217;s instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Have I changed? No. I still wish I could foresee the consequences of the shortcuts I take, and I still believe in interesting accidents. But maybe now I&#8217;m willing to do it over, to try to pull it off consciously this time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">* Demountables are temporary, moveble classrooms schools never have the funding to rebuild or replace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not what the teacher wanted, but typical of my primary school art efforts. In my lateral-thinking impatience, I&#8217;d decided against even rows for tapestries. Quicker. Nearly the same, really. My Mum supported me, my right as a child to view the world differently, to question and explore. She helped me choose a white\/brown wool for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-sewn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}