{"id":1184,"date":"2021-06-24T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:09:03","slug":"1136-cattle-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"1136. Cattle Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go out to paint for long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love to paint early morning. cooler than afternoon, in a location with fresh air, without much wind, and good lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grass is all dried, turned golden. I discovered recently I love smell of dried grass, a kind of sweet fragrance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we cycle to play tennis, we pass this cattle ranch, often many cows and caves graze on grass.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when I went to paint none of them were there. This ranch is huge, other side of the road is same owner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ranch, maybe they moved cows there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first I was disappointed without cows, but really enjoyed painting there with fresh air, birds singing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1136.-Cattle-Ranch_Blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1136.-Cattle-Ranch_Blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1185\" class=\"wp-image-1185\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/cattleranch.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/cattleranch.html\">&#8220;Cattle Ranch&#8221;Oil painting by Mariko Irie<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I finished, I felt silence infiltrating this painting, the feeling was just like after meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go out to paint for long time. I love to paint early morning. cooler than afternoon, in a location with fresh air, without much wind, and good lighting. The grass is all dried, turned golden. I discovered recently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,64,81,91],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-watercolor-oil","tag-farmhouse","tag-mountain","tag-sonoma-ca","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}