{"id":819,"date":"2010-02-26T22:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2010-02-26T22:21:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:21:59","slug":"and-the-queen-bee-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/and-the-queen-bee-is\/","title":{"rendered":"and the queen bee is&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/100226_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n(chosen via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.random.org\/\">random.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\nI was going to put all of your names in my little house <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/the-results-are-in\/\">like I usually do<\/a> but I was swamped this time! Thank you <i>so<\/i> very much (all 145 of you that entered!) I am <i>completely touched and inspired<\/i> by the thoughtfulness and beauty of your writing! And I must share what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairyfiligree.blogspot.com\/\">Fairy Filigree<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Well my favourite Springtime memory belongs to many many years ago when, upon my insistence, mother convinced my father to take us off to the country for a picnic. We went to this new seaside place I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never been to before &#038; I was staggered at the beauty of the sea and the waves from what looked like cliffs to me. Years later, when I revisited the site, I recognised it immediately and realised it had all looked so huge and overwhelming to me because I had been so very little.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nStories of the sea are so inspiring, thank you! And isn&#8217;t it so true&#8230;how huge everything appears when one is so small.<\/p>\n<p>\nI will post my fondest spring memory soon. I have a photograph to go along with it that I need to locate!<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd speaking of spring, it is <i>far, far<\/i> from here in the northeast. It has been snowing since Wednesday and we have over a foot on the ground. Today I went for a long, snowy walk (which was <i>so<\/i> peaceful and calm among the lingering flurries), organized my oil paints (preparing for another painting session), and cheered up this old handmade sweater a bit with rick rack on it&#8217;s yoke. Recently I go crazy over anything golden.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/100226_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(chosen via random.org) I was going to put all of your names in my little house like I usually do but I was swamped this time! Thank you so very much (all 145 of you that entered!) I am completely touched and inspired by the thoughtfulness and beauty of your writing! And I must share &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/and-the-queen-bee-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;and the queen bee is&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giveaway","category-vintage","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}