{"id":1901,"date":"2016-07-03T21:17:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2016-07-03T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T04:19:15","slug":"artistically-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1901","title":{"rendered":"Artistically Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1902\" \/><\/a>\u201cA chief source of happiness for retirees,\u201d writes Ernie Zelinski, \u201cis an artistic pursuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I looked it up. Merriam-Webster defines art as \u201csomething that is created with imagination and skill that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas.\u201d For examples, the online dictionary lists paintings, sculptures and drawings.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in big trouble.<\/p>\n<p>My college students snickered when I tried to draw stick figures at the board. And the piano teacher fired me before my second-grade recital (OK, it had to do with behavior as well as aptitude).<\/p>\n<p>You see, I get the imagination part; it\u2019s the skill and beauty that elude me.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA chief source of happiness for retirees,\u201d writes Ernie Zelinski, \u201cis an artistic pursuit.\u201d So I looked it up. Merriam-Webster defines art as \u201csomething that is created with imagination and skill that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas.\u201d For examples, the online dictionary lists paintings, sculptures and drawings. I\u2019m in big trouble. My college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}