{"id":1169,"date":"2011-09-01T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T01:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T01:24:41","slug":"surreal-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"surreal dream oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/oracle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1170\" title=\"oracle\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/oracle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/oracle.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/oracle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/oracle-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and forty-four:<\/strong> I woke up from a dream last night, and couldn&#8217;t fall back asleep right away. I remembered dreaming of a giant oracle that looked something like this. She originally appeared as a beggar on the sidewalk who would not let me pass. When she trapped me and spoke I realized she was a seer because she was blind. She was a little scary, but then any good oracle should be. I&#8217;m not sure where the vivid dream came from, but suspect it was the dozens of wild surrealist drawings I sifted through yesterday at work. I first considered drawing my oracle in the mode of Salvador Dal\u00ec or Federico Castell\u00f3n, but then I thought that copying another surrealist&#8217;s style wasn&#8217;t really adhering to a true surrealist objective. So I drew this mysterious creature from the memory of my dream, and let the style flow, as much as possible, from my subconscious mind into the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and forty-four: I woke up from a dream last night, and couldn&#8217;t fall back asleep right away. I remembered dreaming of a giant oracle that looked something like this. She originally appeared as a beggar on the sidewalk who would not let me pass. When she trapped me and spoke I realized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[28,37,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}