{"id":811,"date":"2013-12-14T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2013-12-14T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T23:22:09","slug":"oil-painters-of-america-fall-2013-online-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/14\/oil-painters-of-america-fall-2013-online-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Painters of America Fall 2013 Online Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grateful to be a member of Oil Painters of America, and so very happy to have oil painting as a part of my life. I&#8217;ve just entered a pear in the <a href=\"http:\/\/opaonlineshowcase.com\/painting\/58883\">OPA online showcase<\/a>. This pear kept me from my intended job of pruning a prickly Pyracantha. I was gathering my tools to prune when I saw the tremendous beauty of the pear. I had to stop to paint it. What an amazing creation pears are. This Bosc was full of the ever-present symphony of beauty that overwhelms me and calls me to paint.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grateful to be a member of Oil Painters of America, and so very happy to have oil painting as a part of my life. I&#8217;ve just entered a pear in the OPA online showcase. This pear kept me from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/14\/oil-painters-of-america-fall-2013-online-showcase\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[96,66],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-art","tag-bosc-i","tag-oil-painters-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspenshimmers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}