{"id":4750,"date":"2012-05-08T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2012-05-08T09:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:33:55","slug":"maurice-sendak-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/maurice-sendak-dead-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Sendak, dead at 83&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U68bZbMM7q8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This really saddens me. He&#8217;s always been a great inspiration. <\/p>\n<p>\n<i>&#8220;Doing books, doing pictures.. and it&#8217;s the only true happiness I&#8217;ve ever enjoyed in my life. It&#8217;s sublime to just go into another room and make pictures, it&#8217;s magic time, where all your weaknesses of character and all blemishes of personality and whatever else torments you fades away&#8230; You&#8217;re doing the one thing you want to do and you do it well and you know you do it well. And you&#8217;re happy. The whole promise is to do the work. Sitting down at the drawing table, turning on the radio. And I think what a transcendent life this is that I&#8217;m doing everything that I want to do and at that moment I feel like I&#8217;m a lucky man. I&#8217;m trying very hard to concentrate on what is here. What I can see, what I can smell, what I can feel, making that the important business of life.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This really saddens me. He&#8217;s always been a great inspiration. &#8220;Doing books, doing pictures.. and it&#8217;s the only true happiness I&#8217;ve ever enjoyed in my life. It&#8217;s sublime to just go into another room and make pictures, it&#8217;s magic time, where all your weaknesses of character and all blemishes of personality and whatever else torments [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","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=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}