{"id":439,"date":"2005-10-25T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=439"},"modified":"2005-10-25T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T20:06:07","slug":"lobster-in-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/lobster-in-red\/","title":{"rendered":"lobster in red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/illustration\/pastels\/lobster600.jpg\" target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/illustration\/pastels\/lobster350.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I did a still life study in red. Thursday will be blue. I love pastels so much that if I were given a pile of poo to draw, I&#8217;d happily draw it. Luckily for me, I get to draw fun things like plastic lobsters. They don&#8217;t smell as bad. As I was drawing this, I said &#8220;My lobster is telling me to put my head down on that plate so it can eat me.&#8221; My teacher said &#8220;Well, then I&#8217;m afraid I can&#8217;t help you. Sounds like you&#8217;ve got bigger problems that drawing issues.&#8221; Tee hee. But you know what, she came over and looked at my drawing, and the lobster was saying the very same thing to her.<\/p>\n<p>I watched Charlie Rose today and cried over my grilled ham and cheese sandwich. <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=zA7Z75FCTU&#038;isbn=140004314X&#038;itm=1\">Joan Didion<\/a> was on the show, talking about her book The Year Of Magical Thinking. It&#8217;s about her marriage, and dealing with grief and death. It&#8217;s hard to get started on writing after seeing that show. Four more days, then I will give myself the weekend off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did a still life study in red. Thursday will be blue. I love pastels so much that if I were given a pile of poo to draw, I&#8217;d happily draw it. Luckily for me, I get to draw fun things like plastic lobsters. They don&#8217;t smell as bad. As I was drawing this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}