{"id":3620,"date":"2012-01-26T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2012-01-26T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:27:24","slug":"half-done-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/half-done-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Done Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/halfway.jpg\" alt=\"halfway\" title=\"halfway\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/halfway.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/halfway-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/halfway-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I keep shifting directions with this one. And I know it looks like a flower, but it&#8217;s supposed to be the sun, and that&#8217;ll be more clear when I finish it. Anyway I had an idea, sat down to draw it out, and it changed to something else, and now that I&#8217;m at this point, I&#8217;ve refined my first idea to fit in with this and I&#8217;m going back. That&#8217;s the way things go sometimes. I always say to trust the very first thought that comes to mind about things&#8230; easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>I usually have pretty loose ideas when I do work, but I&#8217;ve been kinda fascinated lately with something I&#8217;ve read in a couple different Carl Jung books, most recently in &#8220;The Earth Has A Soul,&#8221; about his travels to Taos, NM, and visit with the Pueblo Indians, and is in itself a simple concept. Here&#8217;s a small excerpt to get to the point:<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>As I sat with Ochwiay Biano on the roof, the blazing sun rising higher and higher, he said, pointing to the sun, &#8220;Is not he who moves there our father? How can anyone say differently? How can there be another god? Nothing can be without the sun.&#8221; &#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Makes sense. More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep shifting directions with this one. And I know it looks like a flower, but it&#8217;s supposed to be the sun, and that&#8217;ll be more clear when I finish it. Anyway I had an idea, sat down to draw it out, and it changed to something else, and now that I&#8217;m at this point, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cut-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}