{"id":1512,"date":"2016-01-07T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.gallery\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2017-10-29T20:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T20:54:39","slug":"nocturne-painting-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/2016\/01\/nocturne-painting-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Nocturne Painting in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><\/del>It was difficult to to see when I looked out from the light of my easel while standing in the loneliness of the empty night desert. When I readjusted my eyes I could see them &#8211; like sentient beings spreading their arms to cast shadows. I clung to my original inspiration, the composition I created of a single ocotillo encompassing all my canvas, the extreme darkness punctuated by glittering stars, the cool desert sand under my feet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-300x228.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1513\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ocotillo in Starlight<\/em>, oil on linen, 9&#8243; x 12&#8243;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was difficult to to see when I looked out from the light of my easel while standing in the loneliness of the empty night desert. When I readjusted my eyes I could see them &#8211; like sentient beings spreading their arms to cast shadows. I clung to my original\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/2016\/01\/nocturne-painting-in-the-desert\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lynnmehta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}