{"id":1391,"date":"2025-12-23T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:41:13","slug":"1316-evening-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"1316. Evening Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1316.-Evening-Road-_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1316.-Evening-Road-_blog.jpg 860w, https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1316.-Evening-Road-_blog-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1316.-Evening-Road-_blog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1316.-Evening-Road-_blog-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/eveningroad.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/eveningroad.html\">\u201c1316. Evening Road\u201d Oil painting by Mariko Irie<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Driving south from Mendocino toward the Brewery Gulch Inn on Highway 1, I missed my turn and had to double back. Even though it wasn&#8217;t even 6:00 PM yet, it was impossibly dark\u2014unlike a city, there were no streetlights or even a glimmer of light from nearby houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that moment, I suddenly caught a fleeting sense of the atmosphere from my childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born in Tokyo and grew up in its suburbs. Back then, even though it was a suburb of the capital, it was nothing like it is now; it was surrounded by rice paddies, fields, and woods. The houses were few and far between, tucked away on small patches of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of that, the sunsets back then felt more vivid than they do today\u2014a very quiet, deeply evocative landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it was that gentle light of the sunset, set against the pitch-black darkness, that stirred such a sense of nostalgia in me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving south from Mendocino toward the Brewery Gulch Inn on Highway 1, I missed my turn and had to double back. Even though it wasn&#8217;t even 6:00 PM yet, it was impossibly dark\u2014unlike a city, there were no streetlights or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1391\">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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-painting","category-paintings-watercolor-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","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=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}