{"id":639,"date":"2011-05-08T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=639"},"modified":"2011-05-08T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:34:07","slug":"orchid-phalaenopsis-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"orchid (phalaenopsis) study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/orchid-blossoms-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-640\" title=\"orchid blossoms 3\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/orchid-blossoms-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/orchid-blossoms-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/orchid-blossoms-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/orchid-blossoms-3-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day one hundred and twenty-eight:<\/strong> Several years ago I was quite enthusiastic about orchids. Friends started giving me orchids as gifts or to rescue, and now I have more than one reasonably needs. I used to spend quite a bit of time caring for them, but now I give them water and light and let them fend for themselves. Some do better than others. Once a year most of the phalaenopsis plants bloom around the same time, and right now I have eight or so in full flower. Today&#8217;s sketch is a study of one of them. I found the complexity of the flower more difficult to realistically reproduce than I expected, hence the incomplete composition. This particular plant is one I gave to my parents around a year ago, and they gave it back when they moved to Tonga, where I suspect they get to see all kinds of orchids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and twenty-eight: Several years ago I was quite enthusiastic about orchids. Friends started giving me orchids as gifts or to rescue, and now I have more than one reasonably needs. I used to spend quite a bit of time caring for them, but now I give them water and light and let [&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":[72,32,40,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}