{"id":674,"date":"2013-03-06T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2014-03-02T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T18:40:05","slug":"ill-often-spend-weeks-just-drawing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll often spend weeks just drawing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>I&#8217;ll often spend weeks just drawing,\u00a0developing ideas for paintings.<br \/>\nI get to a place where I don&#8217;t want to stop &#8211; just skip the paint and draw forever!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"664\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/?attachment_id=664\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenmattson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/KenMattson.com_3578b.jpg?fit=432%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"432,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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I get to a place where I don&#8217;t want to stop &#8211; just skip the paint and draw forever! But the painting does begin. And then I follow the same path, now enveloped in color, one idea leading to another, and painting is all I want [&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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,53,70,54],"tags":[97,110,33],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenmattson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}