{"id":1641,"date":"2011-12-16T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2011-12-16T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:58:45","slug":"juvenile-great-blue-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"juvenile great blue heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/12\/study-of-juvenile-great-blue-heron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1642\" title=\"study of juvenile great blue heron\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/12\/study-of-juvenile-great-blue-heron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/study-of-juvenile-great-blue-heron.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/study-of-juvenile-great-blue-heron-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/study-of-juvenile-great-blue-heron-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day three hundred and fifty: <\/strong>Some days I guess I&#8217;m just in the mood to draw. I&#8217;ve always liked a particular photograph I took of a juvenile great blue heron at the mouth of the Madrigal River in Costa Rica, but I&#8217;ve never managed to sketch it. I&#8217;ve considered it several times, but abandoned the subject before I even started. Once I began to sketch the bird, but quickly scrapped it for something with a simpler background. Tonight, on a relaxing Friday evening, it seemed like the perfect thing to work on. It was as much fun to paint and blend out-of-focus ocean waves, as it was to shape the bird and imitate its feathers and distinct markings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three hundred and fifty: Some days I guess I&#8217;m just in the mood to draw. I&#8217;ve always liked a particular photograph I took of a juvenile great blue heron at the mouth of the Madrigal River in Costa Rica, but I&#8217;ve never managed to sketch it. I&#8217;ve considered it several times, but abandoned the [&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":[24,35,32,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641"}],"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=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}