{"id":1227,"date":"2011-09-13T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2011-09-13T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:07:53","slug":"pacific-ocean-at-corcovado-carate-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Ocean at Corcovado (Carate), Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/view-of-Pacific-from-Carate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1228\" title=\"view of Pacific from Carate\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/09\/view-of-Pacific-from-Carate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/view-of-Pacific-from-Carate.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/view-of-Pacific-from-Carate-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/view-of-Pacific-from-Carate-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and fifty-six:<\/strong> As I suspected, picking a concrete subject to paint with watercolor rather than scratching it out from my imagination certainly made today&#8217;s sketch more relaxing. I don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s fundamentally any better than the landscape study I painted yesterday, but I like it despite its tourist picture qualities. This is a view looking out at the Pacific from my favorite beach on Earth, just South of the Corcovado National Park and a bit North of Carate Costa Rica. Imagine yourself in a hammock with scarlet macaws flying overhead, and no people in sight. Crashing waves, tide coming in&#8230; you get the idea: entirely delightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and fifty-six: As I suspected, picking a concrete subject to paint with watercolor rather than scratching it out from my imagination certainly made today&#8217;s sketch more relaxing. I don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s fundamentally any better than the landscape study I painted yesterday, but I like it despite its tourist picture qualities. This [&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":[27,7,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"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=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}