{"id":732,"date":"2010-07-22T06:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2010-07-22T06:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:52:22","slug":"flowers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img title=\"Yes, but what have they got chopped up into little pieces and buried beneath the flowers?\" alt=\"Yes, but what have they got chopped up into little pieces and buried beneath the flowers?\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4117\/4818017962_1876400238_z.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, a thing stands out.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes, that thing is flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, that thing is the color of a woman&#8217;s fingernails, or the taste of a sauce, or the aroma of cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the point, I think, is to take the time to notice the things that are meant to be noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the point is to make the time to create things that are meant to be noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a painting.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps a dance step.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps a business card.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I think the whole 365-day self portrait project had been, without my knowing, an exercise in feeding my inner Narcissus, which has long gone under-nourished. How else to explain a year&#8217;s worth of daily &#8220;Look at me!&#8221; posts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Sometimes, a thing stands out.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes, that thing is flowers. Sometimes, that thing is the color of a woman&#8217;s fingernails, or the taste of a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=732\" title=\"Flowers\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}