{"id":5804,"date":"2012-10-20T22:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T02:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2012-10-20T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T02:34:25","slug":"maple-leaf-fest-day-1-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/maple-leaf-fest-day-1-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leaf Fest Day 1 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/baldwinbooth.jpg\" alt=\"baldwinbooth\" title=\"baldwinbooth\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/baldwinbooth.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/baldwinbooth-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many, many thanks to all you folks who came out to the Maple Leaf Festival today. You REALLY came out. It was such a great day &#8212; great weather, great people.. So many kind, inspiring words and smiles. One of my large paper cuttings, &#8220;Twinkling Lights&#8221; has a new, loving home. Sometimes selling my art is like putting part of myself up for adoption.. I want it to go somewhere where I know it&#8217;ll be loved and appreciated.. and there&#8217;s never been a doubt in my mind with anybody who has bought my work.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta admit, I&#8217;ve been on a bit of an art making hiatus: 1. because I&#8217;ve had some lingering things to get out of the way and 2. because my art needs to grow with me, and I&#8217;m giving it some time to figure out which direction to grow in. Things have to be constantly transforming.. Seeing so many smiles and positive reactions to what I had out there today was a really nice thing and makes me want to jump back into it just as fast as I can. Such a nice feeling. And just as nice was the sunset on my way home..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/baldwinroad.jpg\" alt=\"baldwinroad\" title=\"baldwinroad\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/baldwinroad.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/baldwinroad-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See y&#8217;all tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many, many thanks to all you folks who came out to the Maple Leaf Festival today. You REALLY came out. It was such a great day &#8212; great weather, great people.. So many kind, inspiring words and smiles. One of my large paper cuttings, &#8220;Twinkling Lights&#8221; has a new, loving home. Sometimes selling my art [&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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-fairs-art-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","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=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5808,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}