{"id":519,"date":"2009-11-21T06:34:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T06:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=519"},"modified":"2010-04-19T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T17:55:05","slug":"colored-pencils-one-of-the-greatest-gifts-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Colored pencils, one of the greatest gifts ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-large wp-image-520\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bruynzeel-0697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-520\" title=\"Bruynzeel-0697\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bruynzeel-0697-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Bruynzeel-0697\" width=\"415\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bruynzeel-0697-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bruynzeel-0697-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bruynzeel-0697.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had these pencil crayons for nearly twenty years now.\u00a0 By all rights they should be little nubs or have been completely consumed in the process of creating art.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t completely explain the pleasure I derive from just having them.\u00a0 I love the colours and the softness of the mark they make on paper, but mostly I cherish them because they were a gift.\u00a0 Not just the gift of them as an object but what they symbolize, the support of my parents whatever I choose to do.\u00a0 Perhaps I took this for granted at the time but I can always pull these out to remind me of their wonderful gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had these pencil crayons for nearly twenty years now.\u00a0 By all rights they should be little nubs or have been completely consumed in the process of creating art.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t completely explain the pleasure I derive from just having them.\u00a0 I love the colours and the softness of the mark they make on paper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","category-drawings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}